The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 18
The magician then tried to escape in earnest, and galloped away at his utmost speed.
Who acts: magician · What happens: try, escape, gallop away · To what, where: earnest, utmost speed
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tried | advmod |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 escape | mark |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 earnest | case |
| 8 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 escape | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 galloped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 galloped | cc |
| 11 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 galloped | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 speed | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 speed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speed | amod |
| 16 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 galloped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the magician | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the magician not said here | earnest | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gallop away | past | the magician not said here | magician's utmost speed | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |
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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