The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 154
The whole court was present, and the little kitchen maid, who had shown the First Lord where the bird could be found, was allowed to stand behind the door where she could see and hear everything.
Who acts: whole court, little kitchen maid, maid · What happens: be, show, find, allow, stand, see · To what, where: First Lord, bird, little kitchen maid, door, everything
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 (whole court, little kitchen maid, maid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 court | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 court | amod |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 present | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 present | cop |
| 5 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 allowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 allowed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maid | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maid | amod |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maid | compound |
| 11 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shown | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shown | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shown | aux |
| 15 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 maid | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lord | det |
| 17 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 Lord | amod |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 found | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 found | aux:pass |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Lord | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lord | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 allowed | aux:pass |
| 27 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 present | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 stand | mark |
| 29 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allowed | xcomp |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stand | obl |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 see | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 door | acl:relcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hear | cc |
| 38 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 stand | conj |
| 39 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 hear | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole court | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past · perfect | the little kitchen maid | the First Lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | could · passive | the bird | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | allow | past · passive | the little kitchen maid | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | the little kitchen maid not said here | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | could | maid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | hear | infinitive | the little kitchen maid not said here | everything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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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