The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 40
Quickly was delight turned into pain as the hook, which was hidden in the worm, pierced the roof of his mouth.
Who acts: worm · What happens: turn, hide, pierce · To what, where: pain, hook, roof
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 (worm), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux:pass |
| 3 | delight | delight | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 hook | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hook | det |
| 9 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hidden | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | aux:pass |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hook | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 worm | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 worm | det |
| 16 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pierced | punct |
| 18 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 worm | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roof | det |
| 20 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pierced | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roof | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | pain | as the hook; delight, quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into pain=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hide | past · passive | the hook | in the worm | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in worm=Location | ||||
| 3 | pierce | participle | the worm not said here | the roof of Sin's mouth | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient |
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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