The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 117
He was horrified at the sad plight of his friend.
What happens: horrify, plight · To what, where: thought, sad plight, friend
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 horrified | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 horrified | aux:pass |
| 3 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 plight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plight | det |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plight | amod |
| 7 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horrified | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plight | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | thought | the sad plight of thought's friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | plight | thought's friend | nom plight «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.
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