The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 110
The poor cat was frightened, but as well as she could she explained how the ring had been lost and how the dog had run away.
Who acts: cat · What happens: frighten, explain, lose, run away · To what, where: poor cat, ring, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 explained | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 explained | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 14 explained | cc |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 explained | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 explained | aux |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 explained | nsubj |
| 14 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 lost | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ring | det |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 lost | aux:pass |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 explained | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 run | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 run | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dog | det |
| 24 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 run | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 run | aux |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lost | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 run | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the poor cat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | could | cat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run away | past · perfect · passive | the dog | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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