Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 7
He immediately started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand.
Who acts: king, lancet · What happens: start, let, fall · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lancet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lancet | det |
| 8 | lancet | lancet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fall | nsubj |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fall | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | king | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | the lancet | king's hand | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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