The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 2
Not only from that country, but from foreign lands did they come, and the house was constantly surrounded by those who hoped to catch even a glimpse of her through the windows, or as she walked in the garden.
Who acts: lands, country, Princess · What happens: come, surround, hope, catch, walk, glimpse · To what, where: foreign lands, house, glimpse, windows, garden, country
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lands, country, Princess), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 country | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 country | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 9 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | obl |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 country | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 surrounded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 surrounded | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 19 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 20 surrounded | advmod |
| 20 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 country | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hoped | nsubj |
| 24 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 catch | mark |
| 26 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hoped | xcomp |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 glimpse | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 glimpse | det |
| 29 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 catch | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 glimpse | nmod |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 windows | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 windows | det |
| 34 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 catch | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 walked | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 walked | cc |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 walked | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 walked | nsubj |
| 39 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hoped | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 garden | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 garden | det |
| 42 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 walked | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | lands = land | foreign lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | that country | the house | constantly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | hope | past | who nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | a glimpse of Princess | the windows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 5 | walk | past | Princess | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | glimpse | Princess | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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