The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 38
He then entered the house, intending to take the bird away, but when he reached the room in which they were it flew up to the ceiling where it could not be reached.
Who acts: Rajah, absence · What happens: enter, intend, take away, reach, be, not reach · To what, where: house, bird, room
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 (Rajah, absence), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 intending | punct |
| 7 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 entered | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 intending | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 flew | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flew | cop |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 room | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 flew | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 ceiling | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ceiling | det |
| 29 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 reached | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 reached | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 reached | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 reached | aux:pass |
| 35 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ceiling | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Rajah | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | |||
| 2 | intend | gerund | Rajah not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rajah not said here | the bird | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | |||
| 4 | reach | past | Rajah | the room | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | absence | the room | to the ceiling; fly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not reach | could · passive | room | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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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