The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 35

This utter absence of fear, and also, perhaps, the bright red plumage, attracted them as it had the Rajah, and they at once fell in love with it.

Who acts: utter absence, plumage, mother · What happens: attract, have, fall, absent · To what, where: mother, Rajah, love, fear

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 (utter absence, plumage, mother), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 absence	det
2	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 absence	amod
3	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attracted	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fear	case
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 absence	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plumage	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 plumage	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	15 plumage	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 also	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 plumage	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perhaps	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plumage	det
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plumage	amod
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plumage	amod
15	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 absence	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 absence	punct
17	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 attracted	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 attracted	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Rajah	det
23	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 fell	obl
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 attracted	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 love	case
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attract	past	this utter absence of fear and the bright red plumage	mother			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	have	past	plumage	the Rajah			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rajah=Patient
3	fall	past	mother		love	with plumage	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	absent			fear			nom absence «state transitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/35/

🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 35