The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 162
The Emperor requested her to stay at the court, and he gave her a large golden cage and allowed her to go out twice every day.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: request, stay, give, allow, go out · To what, where: girl, court, large golden cage
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 requested | nsubj |
| 3 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 requested | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 requested | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 requested | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cage | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cage | amod |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cage | amod |
| 18 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 allowed | cc |
| 20 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allowed | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 go | advmod |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | the Emperor | girl | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | the court | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | EMPEROR | a large golden cage | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cage=Theme | |||
| 4 | allow | past | EMPEROR not said here | girl | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | EMPEROR not said here | day | out, twice property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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