The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
They soon reached the spot where the Crane had eaten the fish, and the Crab saw that it was covered with fishbones.
Who acts: claws, Crane, Crab · What happens: reach, eat, see, cover · To what, where: spot, fish · 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 (claws, Crane, Crab), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 reached | advmod |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 eaten | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Crane | det |
| 8 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 eaten | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eaten | aux |
| 10 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eaten | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Crab | det |
| 16 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 covered | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 covered | aux:pass |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 fishbones | case |
| 23 | fishbones | fishbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 covered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | claws = claw | the spot | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | the Crane | the fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Crab | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | spot | with fishbones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fishbone=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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