The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 24
Then he felt better, and became anxious to try his new powers, so, thanking his Majesty for his kindness, he began to swim away.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: feel, become, try, thank, begin, swim away · To what, where: new powers, Majesty
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 8 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 try | mark |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anxious | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 powers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 powers | amod |
| 13 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 try | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanking | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 thanking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanking | punct |
| 17 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 became | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thanking | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 kindness | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thanking | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 swim | mark |
| 27 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 began | xcomp |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 swim | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | messenger | then | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | become | past | messenger not said here | anxious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | messenger not said here | messenger's new powers | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | gerund | messenger not said here | messenger's Majesty | for messenger's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 5 | begin | past | messenger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | swim away | to-infinitive | messenger not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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