The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 95
They ran at such a pace to the door of the ruined castle that the owl could scarcely keep up with them.
Who acts: birds, owl · What happens: run, ruin, keep up
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 (birds, owl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pace | case |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 pace | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pace | det |
| 6 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 12 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owl | det |
| 16 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 18 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 19 keep | advmod |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 keep | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | birds = bird | at such pace; to the door of the ruined castle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep up | could | the owl | with birds = bird; scarcely property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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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