The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 178
The Emperor was very angry when it was discovered that the real bird had gone away, and everyone agreed that it was a very ungracious thing for her to have done.
Who acts: Emperor, real bird, everyone, window, maid · What happens: be, discover, go away, agree, do · To what, where: window, ungracious thing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Emperor, real bird, everyone, window), 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 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 discovered | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | aux:pass |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 discovered | advcl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 agreed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 agreed | cc |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 agreed | nsubj |
| 20 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 thing | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thing | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thing | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 ungracious | advmod |
| 26 | ungracious | ungracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thing | amod |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 agreed | ccomp |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 done | mark |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 done | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 done | mark |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 done | aux |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 agreed | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Emperor | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | window | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go away | past · perfect | the real bird | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | everyone | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | window | a ungracious thing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive · perfect | maid | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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