The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 49
Having reached his own door, the noble beast fawned upon him, and wagging his tail as if in triumph, ran back into the woods.
Who acts: noble beast · What happens: have, reach, fawn, wag, run back · To what, where: own door, tail, triumph
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 (noble beast), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 reached | reparandum |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 door | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fawned | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 8 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beast | amod |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fawned | nsubj |
| 10 | fawned | fawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fawned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wagging | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wagging | cc |
| 15 | wagging | wag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fawned | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tail | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wagging | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 ran | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 ran | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 triumph | case |
| 21 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 triumph | punct |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wagging | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 woods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woods | det |
| 27 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ran | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reach | past | Guido's own door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fawn | past | the noble beast | upon Guido | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wag | gerund | the noble beast not said here | Guido's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run back | past | the noble beast not said here | triumph | into the woods result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
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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