The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 104
He had scarcely left the room, however, when Sin became very restless, rolling his aching head from side to side.
Who acts: SIN · What happens: leave, become, roll · To what, where: room, aching head, side
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SIN), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 became | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 became | advmod |
| 11 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 restless | advmod |
| 14 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rolling | punct |
| 16 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 became | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | aching | aching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | compound |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolling | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolling | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | SIN | the room | scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Sin | however, restless property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | Sin not said here | SIN's aching head | side to side | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Trajectory |
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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