The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 57
The fairy’s intention was not only to give the prince convincing proofs of her love, but to let him see that he could meet with nothing at his father’s court comparable to the happiness he enjoyed with her.
Who acts: intention, Perie, fairy · What happens: not be, let, see, meet, enjoy, intend · To what, where: Perie, court, happiness, love
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 (intention, Perie, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intention | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 fairy | case |
| 4 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 give | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 give | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 proofs | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proofs | compound |
| 12 | convincing | convincing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proofs | amod |
| 13 | proofs | proof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 love | nmod:poss |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proofs | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 meet | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 meet | aux |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 nothing | case |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 meet | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 court | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 court | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meet | obl |
| 34 | comparable | comparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 court | amod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 happiness | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 happiness | det |
| 37 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 comparable | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 39 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 enjoyed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the fairy's intention | the prince convincing proofs of fairy's love obj; give property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | the fairy's intention not said here | Perie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Perie not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | meet | could | Perie | Perie's father's court | with nothing | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with nothing=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | enjoy | past | Perie | the happiness not said here | with fairy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | intend | the fairy | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | proof | fairy's love | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | love | fairy | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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