The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 36
This happened so often that it puzzled him, and so he made up his mind one day to hide, and watch his daughters cooking; so, going into the room next to the kitchen, he saw everything through a hole in the wall.
Who acts: This, heart, One, daughters · What happens: happen, puzzle, make up, hide, watch, cook · To what, where: One, mind, room, everything, hole
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 (This, heart, One, daughters), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 often | advmod |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 2 happened | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 puzzled | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 puzzled | nsubj |
| 7 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 puzzled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 made | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 made | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hide | mark |
| 20 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 day | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 watch | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 watch | cc |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cooking | nsubj |
| 26 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 watch | xcomp |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 going | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 room | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 room | det |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 going | obl |
| 34 | next | next | ADV | _ | 30 going | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 kitchen | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 kitchen | det |
| 37 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 going | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saw | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 saw | obj |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 hole | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 hole | det |
| 44 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 wall | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 wall | det |
| 47 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hole | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | puzzle | past | heart | One | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | One | One's mind | day | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | One not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | watch | infinitive | One not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cook | gerund | One's daughters | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | go | gerund | This not said here | the room | to the kitchen; next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location to kitchen=Destination | |||
| 8 | see | past | One | everything | a hole in the wall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | mind | One | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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