The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 50
The fairy led Ahmed through the apartments of the palace, where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and all sorts of fine jewels intermixed with pearls, agate, jasper, and the most precious marbles, together with the richest furniture disposed in the most elegant profusion.
Who acts: fairy, Ahmed · What happens: lead, see, intermix, dispose, sort · To what, where: Ahmed, apartments, diamonds, fine jewels, richest furniture, elegant profusion
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 (fairy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 apartments | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apartments | det |
| 7 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 apartments | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 15 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rubies | punct |
| 17 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 diamonds | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 emeralds | punct |
| 19 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 diamonds | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sorts | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sorts | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sorts | det |
| 23 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 jewels | case |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jewels | amod |
| 26 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sorts | nmod |
| 27 | intermixed | intermix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 jewels | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 pearls | case |
| 29 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 intermixed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 agate | punct |
| 31 | agate | agate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pearls | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 jasper | punct |
| 33 | jasper | jasper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 agate | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 marbles | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 marbles | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 marbles | det |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 precious | advmod |
| 38 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 marbles | amod |
| 39 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sorts | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 furniture | punct |
| 41 | together | together | ADV | _ | 45 furniture | advmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 furniture | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 furniture | det |
| 44 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 furniture | amod |
| 45 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sorts | conj |
| 46 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 furniture | acl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 profusion | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 profusion | det |
| 49 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 50 elegant | advmod |
| 50 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 profusion | amod |
| 51 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 disposed | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the fairy | Ahmed | the apartments of the palace | all sorts of fine jewels and the precious marbles and the richest furniture parataxis | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ahmed=Theme through apartment=Destination | ||
| 2 | see | past | Ahmed | diamonds and rubies and emeralds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diamond=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | intermix | participle | fine jewels not said here | with pearls and agate and jasper | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pearl=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | dispose | participle | the richest furniture not said here | the elegant profusion | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sort | fine jewels | nom sort «cognition 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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