The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 106
“The parent birds missed their young ones and sought everywhere for them, and the Cat soon saw that he would have to leave, so he slipped away from the hollow, and escaped.
Who acts: parent birds, Cat · What happens: miss, seek, see, have, leave, slip away · To what, where: young ones
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parent birds, Cat), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 missed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | compound |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 missed | nsubj |
| 5 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ones | nmod:poss |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 missed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sought | cc |
| 10 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 missed | conj |
| 11 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 sought | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Cat | det |
| 17 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 saw | advmod |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 missed | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 leave | mark |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slipped | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 slipped | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slipped | nsubj |
| 29 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 slipped | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 hollow | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hollow | det |
| 33 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 slipped | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 escaped | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 escaped | cc |
| 36 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 slipped | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss in a quote | past | the parent birds | birds's young ones | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | past | the parent birds not said here | for birds = bird; everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | the Cat | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | would | Cat | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | slip away in a quote | past | Cat | from the hollow; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hollow=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | escape in a quote | past | Cat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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