The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 100
Most fairy stories not only amuse, but their unfolding shows the child that good invariably triumphs over evil, and the moral is that one who is kind, polite, generous, unselfish and brave wins in the end.
Who acts: Most fairy stories, unfolding, moral, Stories · What happens: not amuse, show, be, unfold · To what, where: triumphs, child, evil, one, end
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most fairy stories, unfolding, moral, Stories), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 stories | amod |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 amuse | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 amuse | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 amuse | advmod |
| 6 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 shows | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 unfolding | nmod:poss |
| 10 | unfolding | unfolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 amuse | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 good | nsubj |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | acl:relcl |
| 16 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 17 triumphs | advmod |
| 17 | triumphs | triumph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shows | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 evil | case |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shows | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moral | det |
| 23 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | cop |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 one | mark |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 shows | parataxis |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 kind | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 kind | cop |
| 29 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 polite | punct |
| 31 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kind | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 generous | punct |
| 33 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kind | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 unselfish | punct |
| 35 | unselfish | unselfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kind | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wins | cc |
| 37 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 wins | amod |
| 38 | wins | win | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 unselfish | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 end | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 end | det |
| 41 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 unselfish | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 amuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not amuse | infinitive | Most fairy stories | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | show | present | Stories's unfolding | triumphs | the child | evil | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient triumph=Topic | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the moral | one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | who nsubj; kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | be | in the end | brave wins conj | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | unfold | Stories = story | nom unfolding «process intransitive»: poss=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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