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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 41

Meanwhile, Wang Chih was on his way to the moon, and when he got there he went straight to the hut where the Hare of the Moon lived, and knocked at the door.

Who acts: Wang Chih, Chih, Hare · What happens: be, get, go, live, knock · To what, where: way, hut

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang Chih, Chih, Hare), 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

advmodpunctcompoundnsubjcopcasenmod:posscasedetnmodpunctccadvmodnsubjadvcladvmodnsubjparataxisadvmodcasedetobladvmoddetnsubjcasedetnmodacl:relclpunctccconjcasedetoblpunctrootMeanwhileADV,PUNCTWangPROPNChihPROPNwasAUXonADPhisPRONwayNOUNtoADPtheDETmoonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONgotVERBthereADVhePRONwentVERBstraightADVtoADPtheDEThutNOUNwhereADVtheDETHarePROPNofADPtheDETMoonPROPNlivedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJknockedVERBatADPtheDETdoorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MeanwhilemeanwhileADV_4 Chihadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Meanwhilepunct
3WangWangPROPNNumber=Sing4 Chihcompound
4ChihChihPROPNNumber=Sing8 waynsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 waycop
6ononADP_8 waycase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 waynmod:poss
8waywayNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9totoADP_11 mooncase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 moondet
11moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing8 waynmod
12,,PUNCT_19 wentpunct
13andandCCONJ_19 wentcc
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int16 gotadvmod
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 gotnsubj
16gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 wentadvcl
17therethereADVPronType=Dem16 gotadvmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 wentnsubj
19wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 wayparataxis
20straightstraightADV_23 hutadvmod
21totoADP_23 hutcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 hutdet
23huthutNOUNNumber=Sing19 wentobl
24wherewhereADVPronType=Rel30 livedadvmod
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Haredet
26HareHarePROPNNumber=Sing30 livednsubj
27ofofADP_29 Mooncase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Moondet
29MoonMoonPROPNNumber=Sing26 Harenmod
30livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 hutacl:relcl
31,,PUNCT_33 knockedpunct
32andandCCONJ_33 knockedcc
33knockedknockVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 wentconj
34atatADP_36 doorcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 doordet
36doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing33 knockedobl
37..PUNCT_8 waypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastWang ChihChih's wayto the moon; Chih nmod:posstree rules
2getpastChihtherevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3gopastChihthe hutvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
4livepastthe Hare of the Moonvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5knockpastChih not said hereat the doorvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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