The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 17
Now the Crane coveted the tender flesh of the Crab, and perhaps the latter saw a greedy look in his eyes.
Who acts: Crane, latter · What happens: covet, see · To what, where: tender flesh, greedy look, eyes
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, latter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 coveted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crane | det |
| 3 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coveted | nsubj |
| 4 | coveted | covet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flesh | det |
| 6 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flesh | amod |
| 7 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coveted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Crab | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Crab | det |
| 10 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 flesh | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 latter | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 latter | det |
| 15 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coveted | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 look | det |
| 18 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | amod |
| 19 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coveted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | covet | past | the Crane | the tender flesh of the Crab | now | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the latter | a greedy look | Crane's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |
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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