The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 11
The Fox began to run; he ran until he was tired, and then stopped to rest.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: begin, run, be, stop, rest
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 (Fox), 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 tired | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tired | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | cop |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ran | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stopped | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stopped | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Fox | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Fox | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | the Fox not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | rest | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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