The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 90

As they reached their home, he stopped outside to cool himself, but the father called to him, and he went into the house and asked for some water.

Who acts: men, Father · What happens: reach, stop, cool, call, go, ask · To what, where: home, Father, LUMAWIG, house · 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 (men, Father), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stopped	advcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 home	nmod:poss
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 stopped	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cool	mark
11	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stopped	advcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 cool	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stopped	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stopped	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	men = man	men's home				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme
2	stop	past	Father				outside property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	cool	to-infinitive	Father not said here	Father				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	call	participle	the father		LUMAWIG			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	go	past	Father			the house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
6	ask speech: ask	past	Father not said here				for some water	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 90