The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 14

As he was looking about the Malee’s wife saw him, and ran out of the house and said: “My dear boy, who are you that dare venture to this dangerous place?”

Who acts: Balna, dear boy · What happens: look, see, run, say, be · To what, where: Balna, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, dear boy), 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	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 wife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Malee	det
7	Malee	Malee	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Malee	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 boy	nmod:poss
24	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 venture	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 venture	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 venture	cop
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 venture	nsubj
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 dare	det
31	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 venture	nsubj
32	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 boy	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 place	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 place	det
35	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 place	amod
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 venture	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 venture	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Balna			about the Malee's wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about wife=Theme
2	see	past		Balna			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	run	past			the house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory
4	say speech: ask	past				My dear boy ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	My dear boy			to this dangerous place; you nsubj; that dare nsubj; venture property	tree rules

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 14