The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 5
Prince Ahmed no sooner saw himself in Nouronnihar’s chamber than he rose off the carpet, and went to the bedside, and put the apple to her nostrils.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · What happens: see, rise, go, put · To what, where: Ahmed, chamber, carpet, bedside, apple
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 8 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Nouronnihar | case |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 rose | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carpet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carpet | det |
| 16 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bedside | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bedside | det |
| 22 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 apple | det |
| 27 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 nostrils | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 30 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 put | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince Ahmed | Ahmed | Nouronnihar's chamber | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | rise | past | Ahmed | the carpet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off carpet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the bedside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the apple | to Nouronnihar's nostrils | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent apple=Goal |
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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