The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 69
Thanking the Hare, he rushed through it, and ran toward his own house, arriving in time to take from his wife’s hand the taper with which she was about to light the red and yellow lanterns which swung over the door.
Who acts: Hare, spark, red lanterns · What happens: thank, rush, run, arrive, take, be · To what, where: Hare, bottle, own house, taper, hand, red lanterns
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, spark, red lanterns), 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 | Thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 rushed | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thanking | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thanking | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rushed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rushed | conj |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arriving | punct |
| 17 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arriving | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 arriving | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 taper | det |
| 28 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 about | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 about | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 about | cop |
| 33 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 taper | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 light | mark |
| 35 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 about | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lanterns | det |
| 37 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lanterns | amod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 yellow | cc |
| 39 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 red | conj |
| 40 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 light | obj |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 swung | nsubj |
| 42 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 lanterns | acl:relcl |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 door | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 door | det |
| 45 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 swung | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | gerund | Hare not said here | the Hare | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | Hare | bottle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Hare not said here | Hare's own house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward house=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | arrive | gerund | Hare not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | Hare not said here | the taper | Hare's wife's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent taper=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | is | past | spark | with the taper; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | light | to-infinitive | spark not said here | the red lanterns | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Product | ||||
| 8 | swing | past | the red lanterns | the door | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over door=Trajectory |
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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