The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 105
He wandered through the palace, looking at the beautiful things there, and at length reached the room where Balna sat singing to her little boy.
Who acts: husband, Balna · What happens: wander, look, reach, sit, sing · To what, where: palace, room, length, little boy
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Balna), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wandered | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 things | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looking | obl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 looking | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 sat | advmod |
| 21 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | nsubj |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 room | acl:relcl |
| 23 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sat | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 boy | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 boy | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 boy | amod |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 singing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | husband | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | husband not said here | there | at the beautiful things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | reach | past | husband not said here | the room | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent room=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 4 | sit | past | Balna | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | Balna not said here | Balna's little boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient |
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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