The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

Then the Royal Clockmaker was called, and after examining it very carefully he took out the works, which he found to be almost worn out.

Who acts: Physician, works · What happens: call, examine, take out, find, wear out · To what, where: Royal Clockmaker, Clockmaker, works · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Physician, works), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Clockmaker	det
3	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Clockmaker	amod
4	Clockmaker	Clockmaker	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 examining	mark
10	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 took	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 examining	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 carefully	advmod
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 examining	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 works	det
18	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 found	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 works	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	26 worn	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 worn	aux:pass
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	26 worn	advmod
26	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 found	ccomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 worn	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		the Royal Clockmaker	then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	examine	gerund	Physician not said here	Clockmaker		carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	take out	past	Physician	the works			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
4	find	past	the works			Physician nsubj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	wear out	to-infinitive · passive				almost property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 6