The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 20
Gradually this became shorter and shorter, until at last it resumed its former shape.
Who acts: this, nose · What happens: become, resume · To what, where: former shape, last
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 (this, nose), 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 | Gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 3 became | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shorter | cc |
| 6 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 shorter | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resumed | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 resumed | mark |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 resumed | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resumed | nsubj |
| 12 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shape | nmod:poss |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shape | amod |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resumed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this | gradually, short property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | resume | past | nose | nose's former shape | last | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
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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