The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 149
“It’s much better out here in the forest,” replied the Nightingale, but when she heard that the Emperor wished her to go to the palace, she gladly offered to go with them.
Who acts: song, better, unfolding, Emperor · What happens: be, reply, hear, wish, go, offer · To what, where: forest, Nightingale, unfolding, palace · 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 (song, better, unfolding, Emperor), 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 | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 better | compound:prt |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 better | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Nightingale | det |
| 15 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 heard | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wished | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Emperor | det |
| 23 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wished | nsubj |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wished | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wished | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 offered | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 offered | nsubj |
| 33 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 34 offered | advmod |
| 34 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 go | mark |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 offered | xcomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 go | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | song | the forest; here | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | better | the Nightingale | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nightingale=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | unfolding | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | the Emperor | unfolding | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | offer | past | unfolding | gladly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | unfolding not said here | with BIRDS = bird | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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