The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 72
“Well,” replied the owl, “you see I should like to be free too; but this can only be if one of you will offer me his hand in marriage.”
Who acts: owl, you, this, one · What happens: reply, see, like, be, offer · To what, where: one, hand, owl, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (owl, you, this, one), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 owl | det |
| 7 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 free | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 free | cop |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 like | xcomp |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 free | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 offer | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 offer | cc |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 one | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | aux |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 one | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 one | cop |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 one | mark |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 offer | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 offer | aux |
| 30 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 offer | obj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 offer | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 marriage | case |
| 35 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 offer | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the owl | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | the owl = owl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the owl = owl not said here | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | this | one | of you | tree rules | |||
| 6 | offer in a quote | future | one | Caliph's hand | the owl = owl | marriage | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal hand=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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