The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 26
“But what does this mean?” he exclaimed, looking at the pigeons all tangled up in the net.
Who acts: this, friend · What happens: mean, exclaim, look, tangle up · To what, where: net · 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 (this, friend), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 mean | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 exclaimed | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 pigeons | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pigeons | det |
| 15 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 tangled | advmod |
| 17 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looking | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 tangled | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 net | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 net | det |
| 21 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tangled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | this | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | friend not said here | at the pigeons | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pigeon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tangle up | past | friend not said here | the net | all property | tree rules |
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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