The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 22
And so Pei-Hang got safely over the troubles of his babyhood, and grew from a baby into a big boy, and then to a tall, handsome youth.
Who acts: Pei · What happens: get, grow, trouble · To what, where: troubles, baby, babyhood
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 3 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pei | punct |
| 5 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pei | flat |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 troubles | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 troubles | det |
| 10 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 babyhood | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 babyhood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | babyhood | babyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 troubles | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 baby | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 baby | det |
| 19 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grew | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 boy | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boy | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 boy | amod |
| 23 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grew | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 youth | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 youth | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 youth | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 youth | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 youth | det |
| 29 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 youth | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tall | punct |
| 31 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 youth | amod |
| 32 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grew | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Pei | the troubles of Pei's babyhood | safely property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over trouble=Destination | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Pei not said here | a baby | into a big boy; to a tall handsome youth result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from baby=Initial_State to youth=Result | |||
| 3 | trouble | Pei's babyhood | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=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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