The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 21

This was a lesson that Chô was not allowed to forget, because whenever after this he attempted to do anything mean or dishonest, his nose would become sore, and in his terror lest it should grow again, he trained himself to live as a kindly, well-disposed man should do.

Who acts: lesson, Chô, nose, disposed man · What happens: be, not allow, forget, attempt, do, become · To what, where: lesson, anything, terror, Chô

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 (lesson, Chô, nose, disposed man), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lesson	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 allowed	nsubj:pass
6	Chô	Chô	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 allowed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 allowed	advmod
9	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lesson	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 forget	mark
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 allowed	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whenever	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 whenever	mark
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 allowed	advmod
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 this	case
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 whenever	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 attempted	nsubj
18	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whenever	advcl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 attempted	xcomp
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 do	obj
22	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 anything	amod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 dishonest	cc
24	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mean	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nose	nmod:poss
27	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	advcl
30	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 become	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 trained	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 trained	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 terror	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 terror	nmod:poss
35	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 trained	obl
36	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	39 grow	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 grow	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 grow	aux
39	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 terror	acl
40	again	again	ADV	_	39 grow	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 terror	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 trained	nsubj
43	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whenever	conj
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 trained	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 live	mark
46	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 trained	xcomp
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 kindly	mark
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 kindly	det
49	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	46 live	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 do	punct
51	well	well	INTJ	_	56 do	discourse
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 well	punct
53	disposed	dispose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 man	amod
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 do	nsubj
55	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 do	aux
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 live	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lesson	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		this lesson				tree rules
2	not allow	past · passive		this lesson			Chô nsubj:pass; whenever property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	forget not said to happen	to-infinitive	this lesson not said here					tree rules
4	attempt	past	Chô					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Chô not said here	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
6	become	would	Chô's nose				sore property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	grow	should	nose	Chô's terror not said here		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location terror=Theme
8	train	past	Chô	Chô	Chô's terror			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme clause=Attribute
9	live	to-infinitive	Chô not said here				kindly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	dispose	participle						vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
11	do	should	disposed man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 21