The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 54
After the dessert, which consisted of the choicest fruits and sweetmeats, the fairy Perie Banou and Prince Ahmed rose and repaired to a dais, provided with cushions of fine silk, curiously embroidered.
Who acts: dessert, fairy · What happens: consist, rise, repair, provide, embroider · To what, where: dais, fine silk
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 (dessert, fairy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 dessert | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dessert | det |
| 3 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consisted | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 consisted | nsubj |
| 6 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dessert | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fruits | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fruits | det |
| 9 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 fruits | amod |
| 10 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consisted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sweetmeats | cc |
| 12 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fruits | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dessert | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fairy | det |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fairy | appos |
| 17 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Perie | flat |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Ahmed | cc |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ahmed | compound |
| 20 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Perie | conj |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 repaired | cc |
| 23 | repaired | repair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 rose | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 dais | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dais | det |
| 26 | dais | dais | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 repaired | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 provided | punct |
| 28 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 dais | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 cushions | case |
| 30 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 provided | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 silk | case |
| 32 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 silk | amod |
| 33 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cushions | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 embroidered | punct |
| 35 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 36 embroidered | advmod |
| 36 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 silk | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the dessert | of the choicest fruits and sweetmeats | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the fairy | after the dessert | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | repair | participle | the fairy not said here | to a dais | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | provide | participle | a dais not said here | with cushions of fine silk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cushion=Theme | ||||
| 5 | embroider | participle | fine silk not said here | curiously property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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