The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 114
For a long time they lived pleasantly together; but one day the goat failed to be at their meeting-place, and this caused them great anxiety.
Who acts: weasel, goat, this · What happens: live, fail, be, cause · To what, where: meeting place, weasel
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 (weasel, goat, this), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 8 together | advmod |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 failed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 failed | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goat | det |
| 14 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failed | nsubj |
| 15 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 place | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 place | cop |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 20 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 meeting | punct |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failed | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 caused | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 caused | cc |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 caused | nsubj |
| 26 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 caused | obj |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 anxiety | amod |
| 29 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caused | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | weasel | time | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fail | past | the goat | day | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the goat not said here | weasel's meeting place | weasel nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cause | past | this | weasel | great anxiety obj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer they=Theme anxiety=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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