The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 13
In his anger he struck right and left at the children, and ran from the field, holding his nose from the ground as well as he could.
Who acts: Larger · What happens: strike, leave, run, hold, anger · To what, where: anger, field, nose, ground
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 (Larger), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 anger | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 anger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struck | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 right | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 field | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 field | det |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 holding | punct |
| 19 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holding | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holding | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 well | advmod |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 holding | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 could | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 could | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 well | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Larger = large | Larger's anger | right property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | Larger = large not said here | at the children | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at child=Location | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Larger = large not said here | the field | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from field=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | Larger = large not said here | Larger's nose | the ground | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | ||
| 5 | anger | Larger = large | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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