The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 98
The author has on other occasions seized the opportunity to emphasize the fact that fairy tales and fables are really necessary to the child, who, without them, is being defrauded of that which belongs to him.
Who acts: author, fairy tales · What happens: have, seize, emphasize, be, defraud, belong · To what, where: opportunity, other occasions, fact, Author
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 (author, fairy tales), 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 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 occasions | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 occasions | amod |
| 6 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seized | obl |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 opportunity | det |
| 9 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 emphasize | mark |
| 11 | emphasize | emphasize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 opportunity | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fact | det |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 emphasize | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 necessary | mark |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | compound |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 necessary | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fables | cc |
| 18 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tales | conj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 necessary | cop |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 necessary | advmod |
| 21 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fact | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 child | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 necessary | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 who | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 child | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 them | punct |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 who | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 defrauded | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 defrauded | aux:pass |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 defrauded | aux:pass |
| 33 | defrauded | defraud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seized | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 that | case |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 defrauded | obl |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 belongs | nsubj |
| 37 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 defrauded | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 belongs | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the author | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | the opportunity | other occasions | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | emphasize | to-infinitive | the fact | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | fairy tales and fables | the fact not said here | to the child; necessary property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | defraud | present · passive | of that | vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 6 | belong | present | Author | which nsubj | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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