The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 35
At last he saw a worm, but he noticed that it was in the shape of a hook, and remembering the king’s instructions he passed by it, then he came back.
Who acts: Sin, worm, king · What happens: see, notice, be, remember, pass, come back · To what, where: worm, last, shape, instructions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sin, worm, king), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 worm | det |
| 6 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 noticed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 shape | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shape | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shape | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shape | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shape | det |
| 16 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noticed | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hook | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hook | det |
| 19 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shape | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remembering | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 remembering | cc |
| 22 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 remembering | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 passed | nsubj |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 instructions | acl:relcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 passed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 came | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Sin | a worm | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | notice | past | Sin | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | worm | the shape | of a hook | tree rules | |||
| 4 | remember | gerund | Sin not said here | the king's instructions | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pass | past | Sin | the king's instructions not said here | by worm | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme by it=Destination | |||
| 6 | come back | past | Sin | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | instruct | the king | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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