The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 31
In a few days the King arrived, and began to ascend the mountain, but for a long time he searched in vain for the giants.
Who acts: King, mountain · What happens: arrive, begin, ascend, search · To what, where: mountain, vain
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mountain), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrived | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ascend | mark |
| 12 | ascend | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ascend | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 searched | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 searched | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 searched | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 searched | nsubj |
| 22 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 vain | case |
| 24 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 searched | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 giants | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 giants | det |
| 27 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 searched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the King | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the King not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ascend | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | search | past | mountain | vain | time | for the giants | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for giant=Theme |
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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