The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 109
I will!” he exclaimed, and with that he sprang out of bed, ran out of the room and through the front door, and then down the road and into a neighboring field.
Who acts: Ting, Chance · What happens: exclaim, spring out, run, neighbor · To what, where: bed, room
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 (Ting, Chance), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | aux |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 will | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 will | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 door | cc |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 25 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 door | amod |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 road | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 road | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 road | advmod |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 road | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 field | cc |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 field | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 field | det |
| 36 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 field | amod |
| 37 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 road | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | future | Ting | down the road and a neighboring field; Chance nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spring out in a quote | past | Chance | bed | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run in a quote | past | Ting not said here | the room and the front door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | neighbor in a quote | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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