The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 45

Now, when evening came, Rajah Rasalu went forth to play chaupur with King Sarkap, and as he passed some potters’ kilns he saw a cat wandering about restlessly; so he asked what ailed her, that she never stood still, and she replied: “My kittens are in an unbaked pot in the kiln yonder.

Who acts: evening, Rajah, cat, Rasalu, kittens · What happens: come, go, play, pass, see, wonder · To what, where: chaupur, kilns, cat, unbaked pot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (evening, Rajah, cat, Rasalu), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
8	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rajah	flat
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	xcomp
13	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 Sarkap	case
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sarkap	compound
16	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 chaupur	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 potters	det
23	potters	potter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kilns	nmod:poss
24	’	's	PART	_	23 potters	case
25	kilns	kiln	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cat	det
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 cat	acl
31	about	about	ADV	_	32 restlessly	advmod
32	restlessly	restlessly	ADV	_	30 wandering	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 asked	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 asked	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asked	nsubj
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 ailed	nsubj
38	ailed	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	ccomp
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ailed	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stood	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 stood	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stood	nsubj
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 stood	advmod
44	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	conj
45	still	still	ADV	_	44 stood	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 replied	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 replied	cc
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 replied	nsubj
49	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	58 pot	punct
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	58 pot	punct
52	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 kittens	nmod:poss
53	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 pot	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 pot	cop
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 pot	case
56	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 pot	det
57	unbaked	unbaked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 pot	amod
58	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 replied	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 kiln	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 kiln	det
61	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pot	nmod
62	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	61 kiln	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Rajah			now	forth property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play	to-infinitive	Rajah not said here	chaupur			with King Sarkap	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with sarkap=Co-Agent
4	pass	past	Rajah	some potters's kilns				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kiln=Trajectory
5	see	past	Rajah	a cat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	a cat not said here				restlessly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	ask speech: ask	past	Rajah					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	ail	past		cat			what nsubj	vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient she=Experiencer
9	not stand	past	Rasalu			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	reply speech: assert	past	Rasalu					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is in a quote	present	My kittens		a unbaked pot		in the kiln	tree rules

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 21, sentence 45