The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 11
As time went on and he did not return, the tutor and his wife were filled with alarm.
Who acts: Varna · What happens: go on, not return, fill · To what, where: tutor, wife
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Varna), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 return | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 return | advmod |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tutor | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tutor | det |
| 12 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 return | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | aux:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 alarm | case |
| 19 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | Varna | the tutor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | Varna's wife | with alarm | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with alarm=Instrument |
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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