The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 80

The darkness of night had begun to make way for the gray dawn, and hope came to the anxious watchers; hope that the Princess would not be taken away after all.

Who acts: hope · What happens: begin, make, come, not take away · To what, where: darkness, way, hope, anxious watchers, Princess

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 (hope), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 darkness	det
2	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begun	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 darkness	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begun	aux
6	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 begun	advcl
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dawn	det
12	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dawn	compound
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begun	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 watchers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 watchers	det
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 watchers	amod
21	watchers	watcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 hope	punct
23	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 taken	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 taken	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 taken	aux:pass
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hope	acl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 taken	advmod
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 taken	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect · passive		the darkness of night				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive		way		dawn		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
3	come	past	hope	hope	the anxious watchers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to watcher=Initial_Location
4	not take away	would · passive	hope not said here	the Princess		after all	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 5, sentence 80

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 80