The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 104
Instantly their legs shriveled up and grew thin and red; their smart yellow slippers turned to clumsy stork’s feet.
Who acts: smart yellow slippers · What happens: shrivel up, grow, turn · To what, where: legs, feet
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smart yellow slippers), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 shriveled | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 legs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shriveled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | shriveled | shrivel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shriveled | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shriveled | conj |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 red | cc |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thin | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slippers | amod |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slippers | amod |
| 15 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shriveled | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 18 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stork | amod |
| 19 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 stork | case |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shriveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrivel up | participle · passive | Caliph's legs | instantly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | Caliph's smart yellow slippers | clumsy stork's feet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to foot=Trajectory |
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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