The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 104
The goat stopped quite suddenly by the side of a pool, near which the three friends had been conversing together, but he seemed to be afraid to drink.
Who acts: goat, three friends · What happens: stop, converse, seem, be, drink
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, three friends), 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 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 suddenly | advmod |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pool | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pool | det |
| 11 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 conversing | punct |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 conversing | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 friends | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 friends | nummod |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 conversing | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 conversing | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 conversing | aux |
| 20 | conversing | converse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stopped | advcl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 conversing | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seemed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 seemed | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 afraid | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 afraid | cop |
| 28 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 drink | mark |
| 30 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 afraid | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the goat | by the side of a pool; suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | converse speech: other | past · perfect · progressive | the three friends | which obl; together property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | goat | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | goat not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | goat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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