Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 48
The demon was pleased with the plan and in three days the ice was so thick that farmers could cross in their carts.
Who acts: demon, ice, farmers · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: carts
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, ice, farmers), 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 demon | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 plan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thick | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thick | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ice | det |
| 13 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thick | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thick | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 thick | advmod |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pleased | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 cross | mark |
| 18 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cross | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cross | aux |
| 20 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thick | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 carts | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 carts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cross | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the demon | with the plan; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ice | day | thick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cross | could | farmers | demons's carts | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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: «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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