The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 104
The Caliph was so enchanted by her grace and beauty that he declared being turned into a stork had been the best piece of luck which had ever befallen him.
What happens: enchant, turn, be, befall · To what, where: Caliph, best piece, luck
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 enchanted | advmod |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 grace | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beauty | cc |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grace | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | aux |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 turned | aux:pass |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 stork | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stork | det |
| 18 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 piece | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 piece | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 piece | amod |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 luck | case |
| 25 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 befallen | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 befallen | advmod |
| 29 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 luck | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 befallen | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | the Caliph | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | Caliph | into a stork result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into stork=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | the best piece | by rapture's grace and beauty; of luck | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | befall | past · perfect · passive | luck | ever | Caliph obj | tree rules |
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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