The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 143
Then the little kitchen maid called out, “Little Nightingale, our gracious Emperor invites you to sing before him this evening!”
Who acts: Little Nightingale, you · What happens: call out, invite, sing · To what, where: little kitchen maid, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Little Nightingale, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 maid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maid | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maid | amod |
| 4 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maid | compound |
| 5 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 maid | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 invites | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 invites | punct |
| 10 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Nightingale | amod |
| 11 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 invites | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Emperor | punct |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Emperor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Emperor | amod |
| 15 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nightingale | appos |
| 16 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 maid | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 invites | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sing | mark |
| 19 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 invites | xcomp |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sing | obl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 evening | det |
| 23 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sing | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 maid | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: express | participle | the little kitchen maid not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | invite in a quote | present | Little Nightingale | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | before Nightingale; evening | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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