The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
When Guido returned to his home his wife saw that he had come without wood, and inquired the cause.
Who acts: Guido, wife · What happens: return, see, come, inquire · To what, where: cause · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Guido, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inquired | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inquired | cc |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cause | det |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Guido | to Guido's home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Guido's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | Guido | without wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | Guido's wife not said here | the cause | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient |
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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