The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 68
He then continued his journey on foot until he arrived at the Magician’s palace, at the door of which he sat down and began playing with the parrot.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: continue, arrive, sit down, begin, play, journey · To what, where: journey, foot, palace
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 (Prince), 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 | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 continued | advmod |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 foot | case |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Magician | det |
| 13 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Magician | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 door | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sat | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 door | acl:relcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 sat | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sat | conj |
| 27 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 began | xcomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 parrot | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 parrot | det |
| 30 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 playing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Prince | Prince's journey | foot | then | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||
| 2 | arrive | past | Prince | the Magician's palace | the door conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | Prince | of the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Prince not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | play | gerund | Prince not said here | with the parrot | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with parrot=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | journey | Prince | nom journey «act 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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