The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
Houssain took the ivory tube, and wished to see the Princess Nouronnihar, when Ali and Prince Ahmed, who kept their eyes fixed on him, were extremely surprised to see his countenance suddenly express extraordinary alarm and affliction.
Who acts: Houssain, Ali, eyes · What happens: take, wish, see, keep, fix, be · To what, where: ivory tube, Princess Nouronnihar, eyes, countenance
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 (Houssain, Ali, eyes), 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 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tube | det |
| 4 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tube | compound |
| 5 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wished | cc |
| 8 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wished | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Nouronnihar | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 13 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 surprised | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 surprised | advmod |
| 16 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 surprised | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Ahmed | cc |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ahmed | compound |
| 19 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ali | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 kept | nsubj |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Ali | acl:relcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kept | obj |
| 25 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 kept | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fixed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ali | punct |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 surprised | cop |
| 30 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 31 surprised | advmod |
| 31 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Nouronnihar | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 surprised | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 35 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obj |
| 36 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 37 express | advmod |
| 37 | express | express | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 alarm | amod |
| 38 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 alarm | amod |
| 39 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 countenance | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 affliction | cc |
| 41 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 alarm | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Houssain | the ivory tube | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tube=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | Houssain not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Houssain not said here | the Princess Nouronnihar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nouronnihar=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | Ali and Prince Ahmed | princes's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fix | participle | princes's eyes not said here | on Ali | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Ali and Prince Ahmed | extremely, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | Ali and Prince Ahmed not said here | Ali's countenance and express extraordinary alarm and affliction | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer countenance=Stimulus |
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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