The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 52
It was adorned with an infinite number of wax candles perfumed with amber.
What happens: adorn, perfume · To what, where: cloth, wax candles
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 adorned | aux:pass |
| 3 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 6 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 number | amod |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adorned | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 candles | case |
| 9 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 candles | compound |
| 10 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 11 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 candles | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 amber | case |
| 13 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perfumed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | past · passive | cloth | with a infinite number of wax candles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perfume | participle | wax candles not said here | with amber | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with amber=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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