The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 118
There was a small lake in Malwa called Lily-Water, and on its bank one day stood a Crane who seemed to be lost in thought.
Who acts: small lake, Malwa, bank, Crane · What happens: be, call, stand, seem, lose · To what, where: small lake, Lily, Crane, thought · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small lake, Malwa, bank, Crane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lake | amod |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 7 | Malwa | Malwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lake | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Water | punct |
| 11 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lily | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bank | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bank | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Crane | det |
| 21 | Crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Crane | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 thought | case |
| 28 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a small lake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Malwa | a small lake not said here | Lily and Water | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lily=Recipient | |||
| 3 | stand | past | lake's bank one day | a Crane | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crane=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | a Crane | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive · passive | a Crane not said here | thought | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in thought=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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