The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 104
There were strange faces everywhere; and although when evening came the Feast of Lanterns was being held once more, there was no Ho-Seen-Ko carrying her red and yellow fish, or Han Chung with his flaming red ball.
Who acts: strange faces, evening, Seen Ko · What happens: be, come, hold, carry, flame · To what, where: Feast, red fish
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange faces, evening, Seen Ko), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faces | amod |
| 4 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 were | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 carrying | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 was | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Feast | det |
| 13 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lanterns | case |
| 15 | Lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Feast | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 held | aux:pass |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 came | advcl |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 held | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 carrying | aux |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 Ko | det |
| 25 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Seen | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ho | punct |
| 27 | Seen | Seen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ko | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Seen | punct |
| 29 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | nsubj |
| 30 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 were | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fish | nmod:poss |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fish | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 yellow | cc |
| 34 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 red | conj |
| 35 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Chung | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 Chung | cc |
| 38 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Chung | compound |
| 39 | Chung | Chung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 ball | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 ball | nmod:poss |
| 42 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 ball | amod |
| 43 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ball | amod |
| 44 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | strange faces | there | everywhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | past · passive | the Feast of Lanterns | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | past · progressive | no Seen Ko | Ko's red fish | with Wang's flaming red ball; Han Chung obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | |||
| 5 | flame | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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