The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 100
The third youth, however, reached the gate and passed through it in a happy frame of mind.
Who acts: third youth · What happens: reach, pass · To what, where: gate
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third youth), 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 | 3 youth | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 youth | amod |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 youth | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 reached | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reached | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 frame | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 frame | det |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 frame | amod |
| 17 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frame | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the third youth | the gate | however property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | participle | the third youth not said here | gate | in a happy frame of mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location |
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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