The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
Several months passed away when one evening, as the Emperor lay in bed listening to it, something inside snapped, and the music stopped.
Who acts: Several months, Emperor, music · What happens: pass away, lie, listen, snap, stop · To what, where: bed, something
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: who acts (Several months, Emperor, music), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 months | amod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 evening | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 evening | nummod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 lay | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 15 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 listening | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 something | punct |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 listening | obl |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 21 snapped | advmod |
| 21 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 something | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stopped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stopped | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 music | det |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stopped | nsubj |
| 26 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | Several months | evening | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the Emperor | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | the Emperor not said here | something | bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | |||
| 4 | snap | past | inside property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | past | the music | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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