The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 45

As soon as he heard what Wang Chih wanted, he opened two windows at the back of the hut, and told him to look through each of them in turn.

Who acts: Hare, Wang · What happens: hear, want, open, tell, look · To what, where: two windows, back, Hare · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hare, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 heard	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 heard	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 heard	obj
7	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	nsubj
8	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wang	flat
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 opened	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opened	nsubj
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 windows	nummod
14	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opened	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opened	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hut	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hut	det
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 each	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 look	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 each	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 turn	case
32	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Hare				what obj; soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	want	past	Wang					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	open	past	Hare	two windows		the back of the hut		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent window=Theme at back=Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	Hare not said here		Hare			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hare not said here				in turn; through each of windows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through each=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 23, sentence 45