In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 11

[9] Then he determined at all hazards to get one glimpse of her face; and he crept round the house, backwards and forwards, peering through every crack and chink.

Who acts: Tomozō · What happens: determine, get, creep, peer, chink, glimpse · To what, where: 9, hazards, one glimpse, house, face

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tomozō), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 9	punct
2	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 determined	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 9	punct
4	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 determined	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 determined	nsubj
6	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 hazards	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hazards	det
9	hazards	hazard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 determined	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 determined	ccomp
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 glimpse	nummod
13	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 face	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glimpse	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 crept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crept	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 crept	nsubj
20	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 determined	conj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 backwards	punct
25	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	20 crept	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 forwards	cc
27	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	25 backwards	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 peering	punct
29	peering	peer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 crept	advcl
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 crack	case
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 crack	det
32	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 peering	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 chink	cc
34	chink	chink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 peering	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	Tomozō	9	all hazards	then		vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	to-infinitive	Tomozō not said here	one glimpse of woman's face				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus
3	creep	past	Tomozō		the house		backwards property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory
4	peer	gerund	Tomozō not said here				through every crack	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through crack=Theme
5	chink	infinitive	Tomozō not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	glimpse			woman's face				nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 11

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In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 11