The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 6

After a while they all sat down in a ring, and Chô, who pretended to be asleep, watched carefully out of one half-opened eye to see what they would do next.

Who acts: children, Chô · What happens: sit down, pretend, be, watch, open, see · To what, where: ring, one opened eye · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, Chô), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 they	det
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ring	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pretended	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pretended	cc
13	Chô	Chô	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pretended	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pretended	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 pretended	nsubj
16	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 asleep	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 asleep	cop
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pretended	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watched	punct
21	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pretended	conj
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	21 watched	advmod
23	out	out	ADP	_	29 eye	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 eye	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 eye	nummod
26	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 opened	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 half	punct
28	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 eye	amod
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watched	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 watched	advcl
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 do	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 see	ccomp
36	next	next	ADV	_	35 do	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	children = child	a ring	while		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location
2	pretend	past	Chô			who nsubj	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	Chô not said here			asleep property	tree rules
4	watch	past	Chô not said here	one opened eye		carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out eye=Location
5	open	participle				half compound	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	Chô not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	do	would	children = child			what obj; next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 6