The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 152
The people moving back and forth caused the little golden bells to tinkle all the time.
Who acts: people · What happens: move back, cause, tinkle · To what, where: little golden bells
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 people | acl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 moving | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forth | cc |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 back | conj |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bells | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bells | amod |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bells | amod |
| 11 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caused | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tinkle | mark |
| 13 | tinkle | tinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 caused | advcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 time | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tinkle | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move back | gerund | the people not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cause | past | the people | the little golden bells | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bell=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tinkle | to-infinitive | the people not said here | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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