The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 88

But they did not look up, and by and by Wang Chih got so interested in the game that he put down his axe, and sat on the floor to watch it better.

Who acts: eyes, Wang · What happens: not look up, get, put down, sit, watch · To what, where: axe, floor

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 (eyes, Wang), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 look	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 got	mark
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 Wang	case
12	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
13	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wang	flat
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 interested	advmod
16	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 got	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 game	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 game	det
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 interested	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 put	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 interested	advcl
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 put	compound:prt
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 axe	nmod:poss
25	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 got	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 floor	det
31	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 watch	mark
33	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sat	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 watch	obj
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 watch	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not look up	past · do-support	eyes = eye				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	Wang			interested property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	put down	past	Wang	Wang's axe			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent axe=Goal
4	sit	past	Wang not said here		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
5	watch	to-infinitive	Wang not said here	axe		good property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 88

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 88