The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 19
The fowler, who had hidden himself at some distance, saw the pigeons flying away with his net and hastened to stop them, but was too late, and soon they were out of sight.
Who acts: fowler, pigeons, net · What happens: hide, see, fly away, hasten, stop, be · To what, where: fowler, pigeons, net, sight
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowler, pigeons, net), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fowler | det |
| 2 | fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hidden | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hidden | aux |
| 6 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fowler | acl:relcl |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 hidden | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 distance | det |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hidden | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fowler | punct |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pigeons | det |
| 14 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 pigeons | acl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 flying | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 net | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 net | nmod:poss |
| 19 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flying | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hastened | cc |
| 21 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 net | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stop | mark |
| 23 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hastened | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stop | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 late | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 late | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 late | cop |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 late | advmod |
| 29 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sight | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sight | cc |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 sight | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sight | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sight | cop |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 sight | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 sight | case |
| 37 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 late | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the fowler | at some distance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the fowler | the pigeons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigeon=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly away | gerund | the pigeons not said here | with fowler's net; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hasten | participle | the pigeons not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | the pigeons not said here | net | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is | past | late property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | past | net | sight | soon property | tree rules |
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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