Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 29
It took but a moment to get the story, get them out from under the seat, and on the way to the chapel.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, get, get out · To what, where: story, others, seat
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 moment | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 get | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 seat | case |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 seat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seat | det |
| 17 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 way | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 chapel | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chapel | det |
| 25 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | moment | the way to the chapel parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get out | infinitive | others = other | the seat | 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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