The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
The Fox looked at him, and then, without a word, slunk away, his head bowed in shame.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: look, slink away, bow · To what, where: word, head, shame
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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 word | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 word | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 word | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slunk | punct |
| 14 | slunk | slink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 word | acl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 slunk | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 head | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 word | appos |
| 19 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 head | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 shame | case |
| 21 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bowed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Fox | at Crab; without a word | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slink away | participle | a word not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bow | participle | Crab's head not said here | shame | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shame=Location |
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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