The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 112
The two newly made storks lost no time in drawing near, and to their amazement overheard the following conversation:
Who acts: two made storks, time, claws · What happens: make, lose, draw, overhear, follow, amaze · To what, where: following conversation
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 (two made storks, time, claws), 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 | 5 storks | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 storks | nummod |
| 3 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 storks | amod |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 drawing | mark |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 drawing | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overheard | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 overheard | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 amazement | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 16 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overheard | obl |
| 17 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 conversation | det |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 conversation | amod |
| 20 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overheard | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | newly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | the two made storks | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | no time not said here | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | overhear | past | the two made storks not said here | the following conversation | to claws's amazement | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | amaze | claws = claw | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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