The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 88
They did just what the wise old beast had suggested, and the thing befell exactly as he said it would.
Who acts: thing · What happens: suggest, befall, say · To what, where: lions · 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 (thing), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 suggested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 suggested | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 suggested | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beast | det |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suggested | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 suggested | aux |
| 10 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 befell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 befell | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 befell | nsubj |
| 15 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 suggested | parataxis |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 15 befell | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 befell | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 would | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past · perfect · passive · do-support | lions = lion | what obj; the wise old beast nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | befall | past | the thing | exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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