The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 15
Then the Crane took them, one after another, and having eaten them, returned to report that he had safely deposited each in the pond.
Who acts: Crane · What happens: take, eat, return, report, deposit · To what, where: others, each, pond
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crane | det |
| 3 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 another | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eaten | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eaten | cc |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 eaten | aux |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eaten | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 report | mark |
| 18 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 returned | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 deposited | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 deposited | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 deposited | aux |
| 22 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 23 deposited | advmod |
| 23 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 report | ccomp |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 deposited | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pond | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pond | det |
| 27 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 each | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Crane | others = other | then | one obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme one=Destination | ||
| 2 | eat | gerund · perfect | the Crane not said here | others = other | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the Crane not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | report | to-infinitive | the Crane not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | deposit | past · perfect | Crane | each | the pond | safely property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent each=Theme in pond=Destination |
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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