The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 99
They stimulate the youthful imagination and provide a good foundation for the further development of the mind.
Who acts: Tales · What happens: stimulate, provide, develop · To what, where: youthful imagination, good foundation, mind
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stimulate | nsubj |
| 2 | stimulate | stimulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 imagination | det |
| 4 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 imagination | amod |
| 5 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stimulate | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 provide | cc |
| 7 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stimulate | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 foundation | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foundation | amod |
| 10 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provide | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 development | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 development | det |
| 13 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 development | amod |
| 14 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foundation | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 development | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stimulate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stimulate | present | Tales = tale | the youthful imagination | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus imagination=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | provide | infinitive | Tales = tale not said here | a good foundation | for the further development of the mind | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition foundation=Theme for development=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | develop | the mind | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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