The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 6
The three princes cheerfully consented to this proposal, as each flattered himself fortune might prove favorable to him, and give him possession of the Princess Nouronnihar.
Who acts: three princes, each, fortune · What happens: consent, flatter, prove, give, possess · To what, where: himself, possession, fortune, Princess Nouronnihar
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 (three princes, each, fortune), 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 | 3 princes | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 princes | nummod |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consented | nsubj |
| 4 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 5 consented | advmod |
| 5 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 proposal | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 proposal | det |
| 8 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flattered | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 flattered | mark |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 flattered | nsubj |
| 12 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 consented | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 flattered | obj |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prove | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 prove | aux |
| 16 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 flattered | xcomp |
| 17 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prove | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 favorable | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prove | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Nouronnihar | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Nouronnihar | det |
| 27 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 28 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 possession | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the three princes | to this proposal; cheerfully property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to proposal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flatter | past | each | himself = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prove | might | fortune | favorable property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | fortune not said here | possession of the Princess Nouronnihar | fortune | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient possession=Theme | |||
| 5 | possess | the Princess Nouronnihar | nom possession «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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