The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 95
As soon as they arrived they remarked a stork strutting up and down with a stately air, hunting for frogs, and now and then muttering something to itself.
Who acts: Caliph, stork · What happens: arrive, remark, strut, hunt, mutter · To what, where: stork, something
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 (Caliph, stork), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remarked | nsubj |
| 7 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stork | det |
| 9 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remarked | obj |
| 10 | strutting | strut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stork | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 strutting | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 down | cc |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 up | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 16 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strutting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunting | punct |
| 19 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 strutting | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 frogs | case |
| 21 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hunting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 muttering | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 muttering | cc |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 muttering | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 muttering | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 muttering | advmod |
| 27 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 muttering | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 itself | case |
| 30 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 muttering | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Caliph | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | Caliph | a stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stork=Topic | ||||
| 3 | strut | gerund | a stork not said here | with a stately air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | a stork not said here | for frogs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for frog=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | Caliph not said here | something | STORK | now; then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to itself=Recipient |
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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