The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 46
Hurrying back to the house she told her daughter about the dream, and showed her the small bottle she had found.
Who acts: dream · What happens: hurry back, tell, show, find · To what, where: house, daughter, small bottle, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dream), 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 | Hurrying | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 told | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Hurrying | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hurrying | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 dream | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dream | det |
| 12 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottle | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bottle | amod |
| 19 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | aux |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry back | gerund | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | dream | dream's daughter about the dream | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | past | dream not said here | the small bottle | dream | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bottle=Topic | |||
| 4 | find | past · perfect | dream | the small bottle not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Topic |
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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