The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 20
The pigeons, seeing that they were safely away from the fowler, asked the King what they should do next.
Who acts: Pigeons · What happens: see, be, ask, do · To what, where: fowler, King
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 (Pigeons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pigeons | det |
| 2 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 pigeons | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 away | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 away | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 away | cop |
| 8 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 seeing | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 fowler | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fowler | det |
| 12 | fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 away | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pigeons | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 21 | next | next | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Pigeons = pigeon | the fowler | away, safely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the pigeons | the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | should | Pigeons = pigeon | what obj; next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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