The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

Set out early to-morrow morning, and when you have passed the gate throw before you the ball of thread, which will roll till it reaches the gates of the castle.

Who acts: you, ball, throw · What happens: set out, pass, roll, reach · To what, where: gate throw, gates

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ball, throw), 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	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Set	compound:prt
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Set	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 morning	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 to	punct
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 morning	compound
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 passed	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	aux
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Set	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 throw	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throw	compound
16	throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 passed	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ball	det
20	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 thread	case
22	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ball	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 roll	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 roll	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 roll	aux
26	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ball	parataxis
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 reaches	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 reaches	nsubj
29	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 roll	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gates	det
31	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reaches	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 castle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 castle	det
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gates	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	imperative	you not said here		morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present · perfect	you	the gate throw	before you	the ball of thread obj	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent throw=Recipient ball=Theme
3	roll	future	the ball of thread				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	present	throw	the gates of the castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 65