The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 108
Just before reaching the house, however, the dog was so overcome with fear that he turned and ran away and never was seen again.
Who acts: dog · What happens: reach, be, turn, run away, not see · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 reaching | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 reaching | mark |
| 3 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaching | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 overcome | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 overcome | advmod |
| 13 | overcome | overcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reaching | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 turned | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turned | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seen | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 seen | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 turned | conj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 seen | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the dog | with fear; however, overcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | dog | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run away | past | dog not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not see | past · passive | dog not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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