The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 37
On looking about, the prince beheld an iron door, which seemed to be locked; but on his pushing against it, it opened, and revealed a staircase, which he walked down with his arrow in his hand.
Who acts: prince, iron door, door, staircase · What happens: look, behold, seem, lock, push, open · To what, where: iron door, staircase
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, iron door, door, staircase), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 beheld | advcl |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 looking | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 looking | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | nsubj |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 door | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 locked | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 locked | aux:pass |
| 16 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 opened | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 opened | cc |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 pushing | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pushing | nsubj |
| 21 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 opened | advcl |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pushing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pushing | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 opened | nsubj |
| 26 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beheld | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 revealed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 revealed | cc |
| 29 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beheld | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 staircase | det |
| 31 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 revealed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 walked | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 walked | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 walked | nsubj |
| 35 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 walked | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 arrow | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 39 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walked | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 hand | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hand | nmod:poss |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 arrow | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | the prince not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | the prince | a iron door | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | a iron door | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | lock | to-infinitive · passive | a iron door not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | push | gerund | Prince | against door | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | open | past | door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | reveal | past | the prince not said here | a staircase | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Topic | ||||
| 8 | walk down | past | a staircase | with Prince's arrow in Prince's hand; Prince nsubj; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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