The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 24
The Crane thought that would be all right, and so the other held on to his neck with his claws, and off they went.
Who acts: Crane, that, claws · What happens: think, be, hold on, go · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that, 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 | 2 Crane | det |
| 2 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 right | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 right | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 right | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 right | advmod |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 other | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 other | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 other | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 right | parataxis |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 other | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 neck | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 claws | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 neck | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 went | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Crane | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | would | that | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold on | participle | that not said here | to Crane's neck with Crane's claws | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | claws = claw | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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