The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 94
As soon as the storks heard this they were nearly beside themselves with joy.
Who acts: storks, birds · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, birds), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storks | det |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 themselves | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 themselves | cop |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 themselves | advmod |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the storks | this | with joy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | birds = bird | beside birds = bird; nearly property | tree rules |
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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