The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 106
At last they went home, but before leaving the field the boy who had taken the magic bag from beneath the stone carefully replaced it.
Who acts: children, boy, leaving · What happens: go, leave, take, replace · To what, where: field, magic bag, stone, BAG
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, boy, leaving), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 replaced | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 replaced | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 replaced | cc |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaving | mark |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 replaced | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 taken | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 boy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bag | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bag | compound |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 21 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stone | det |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obl |
| 24 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 leaving | advmod |
| 25 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 replaced | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | children = child | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the field | the boy obj; carefully property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent field=Theme boy=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | the boy | the magic bag | the stone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme from stone=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | replace | past | leaving | BAG | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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