Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 8
A little later a wild goose dropped down by the pond for a drink.
Who acts: wild goose · What happens: drop down
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild goose), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 dropped | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 goose | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | nsubj |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 dropped | compound:prt |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 pond | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pond | det |
| 11 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 drink | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drink | det |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop down | participle | a wild goose | by the pond; for a drink; late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by pond=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/8/