The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 68
The moment he had done so the window grew larger, and he saw some steps leading from it down into the village street.
Who acts: Wang, moment, steps · What happens: do, grow, see, lead · To what, where: moment, steps, bottle
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, moment, steps), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 steps | det |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 steps | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leading | obl |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 leading | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 street | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 street | det |
| 23 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 street | compound |
| 24 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 down | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Wang | the moment not said here | so the window | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the moment | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Wang | some steps | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | some steps not said here | bottle | down property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from it=Destination |
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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