The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 13
The Crane took him in his bill and let him go in the other pool, and he showed the fish all over it.
Who acts: Crane · What happens: take, let, go, show, bill · To what, where: course, bill, Crane, other pool, fish, pool
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crane | det |
| 2 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bill | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bill | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pool | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pool | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pool | amod |
| 15 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 showed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 showed | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 19 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 showed | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 it | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Crane | course | Crane's bill | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in bill=Location | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the Crane not said here | Crane | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Crane not said here | the other pool | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pool=Location | ||||
| 4 | show | past | Crane | the fish | pool | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bill | Crane | nom bill «communication 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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