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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 105

In the garden were the most beautiful flowers, on some of which were little golden bells which tinkled in the wind so that you could not help looking at them.

Who acts: some, little golden bells, you · What happens: be, tinkle, not help, look · To what, where: beautiful flowers, garden, little golden bells, wind

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 (some, little golden bells, you), 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

casedetoblcopdetadvmodamodpunctcasensubjcasenmodcopamodamodconjnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblmarkfixednsubjauxadvmodadvclxcompcaseoblpunctrootInADPtheDETgardenNOUNwereAUXtheDETmostADVbeautifulADJflowersNOUN,PUNCTonADPsomeDETofADPwhichPRONwereAUXlittleADJgoldenADJbellsNOUNwhichPRONtinkledVERBinADPtheDETwindNOUNsoSCONJthatSCONJyouPRONcouldAUXnotPARThelpVERBlookingVERBatADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 gardencase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 gardendet
3gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing8 flowersobl
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 flowerscop
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 flowersdet
6mostmostADVDegree=Sup7 beautifuladvmod
7beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos8 flowersamod
8flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
9,,PUNCT_17 bellspunct
10ononADP_17 bellscase
11somesomeDETPronType=Ind17 bellsnsubj
12ofofADP_13 whichcase
13whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel11 somenmod
14werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 bellscop
15littlelittleADJDegree=Pos17 bellsamod
16goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos17 bellsamod
17bellsbellNOUNNumber=Plur8 flowersconj
18whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 tinklednsubj
19tinkledtinkleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 bellsacl:relcl
20ininADP_22 windcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 winddet
22windwindNOUNNumber=Sing19 tinkledobl
23sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ28 helpmark
24thatthatSCONJ_23 sofixed
25youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs28 helpnsubj
26couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 helpaux
27notnotPARTPolarity=Neg28 helpadvmod
28helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf19 tinkledadvcl
29lookinglookVERBVerbForm=Ger28 helpxcomp
30atatADP_31 themcase
31themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 lookingobl
32..PUNCT_8 flowerspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastthe beautiful flowers and little golden bellsthe gardentree rules
2ispastsome of little golden bellslittle golden bellstree rules
3tinklepastlittle golden bellsthe windvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location
4not helpcouldyouvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5look not said to happengerundyou not said hereat bells = bellvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme

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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