The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 82
It kept on its downward course until it reached within a few feet of the roof, and then stopped.
Who acts: sky · What happens: keep, reach, stop · To what, where: downward course
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 (sky), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 course | nmod:poss |
| 5 | downward | downward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 course | amod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 reached | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | advcl |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feet | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reached | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 roof | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roof | det |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stopped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stopped | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stopped | advmod |
| 20 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | sky | sky's downward course | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on course=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | sky | within a few feet of the roof | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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