The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 45
As soon as she saw him she threw herself into his arms, and shed tears of joy at his safe return.
Who acts: wedding, Pei · What happens: see, throw, shed, return · To what, where: Pei, wedding, arms, tears, safe return
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 (wedding, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shed | cc |
| 15 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tears | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 return | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 return | nmod:poss |
| 21 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 return | amod |
| 22 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | wedding | Pei | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | throw | past | wedding | wedding | into Pei's arms result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into arm=Result | |||
| 3 | shed | past | wedding not said here | tears of joy | Pei's safe return | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | |||
| 4 | return | Pei | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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