Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 106
Above them was a beautiful spruce tree, by their side a dish of peaches and one of pears, two wine-cups and a bottle of wine.
Who acts: men, one · What happens: be, cup · To what, where: beautiful spruce tree
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, one), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 7 tree | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tree | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tree | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 6 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 side | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dish | det |
| 13 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 peaches | case |
| 15 | peaches | peach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dish | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cups | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 cups | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pears | case |
| 19 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cups | punct |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 cups | nummod |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cups | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 wine | punct |
| 24 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 peaches | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bottle | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bottle | det |
| 27 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cups | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wine | case |
| 29 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bottle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | men = man | a beautiful spruce tree and men's side | men's side conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cup | one of pears | a bottle of wine conj | tree rules |
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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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