The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 51
The experiment succeeded; and the prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, received the apple.
Who acts: experiment · What happens: succeed, count out, receive · To what, where: prince, forty purses, apple
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experiment), 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 experiment | det |
| 2 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | nsubj |
| 3 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prince | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 counted | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 counted | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 counted | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 counted | aux |
| 12 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 succeeded | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 counted | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 crier | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crier | det |
| 16 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 counted | obl |
| 17 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 purses | nummod |
| 18 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 counted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 received | punct |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 succeeded | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apple | det |
| 22 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | the experiment | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count out | past · perfect | experiment | forty purses | to the crier | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to crier=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | receive | past | the apple | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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