The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 53

So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began the lad’s heart leaped up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world.

Who acts: child, twelfth year, life · What happens: live, play, talk, begin, leap up, love · To what, where: heart, child, palace prison

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 (child, twelfth year, life), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 lived	expl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 playing	punct
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lived	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 colt	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 colt	nmod:poss
10	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 talking	cc
13	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 playing	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 parrot	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 parrot	nmod:poss
16	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talking	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 began	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 year	det
21	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 year	amod
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lad	det
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heart	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 lad	case
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	obj
28	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 began	xcomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 leaped	compound:prt
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 desire	case
31	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leaped	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 change	case
33	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 desire	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 loved	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 loved	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 loved	nsubj
37	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 listen	mark
39	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 loved	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 sounds	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sounds	det
42	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 listen	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 life	case
44	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sounds	nmod
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 came	nsubj
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 life	acl:relcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 came	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	53 prison	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 prison	nmod:poss
51	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 prison	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 palace	punct
53	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	obl
54	from	from	ADP	_	57 world	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 world	det
56	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 world	amod
57	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 prison	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the child			there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	gerund	the child not said here				with child's colt	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colt=Theme
3	talk	gerund	the child not said here				to child's parrot	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parrot=Co-Agent
4	begin	past	the twelfth year	the lad's heart				tree rules
5	leap up	participle	the twelfth year not said here				with desire for change	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	love	past	child					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here				to the sounds of life	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme
8	come	past	life		child	child's palace prison from the outside world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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 20, sentence 53