The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 58
She hoped by those means to attach Prince Ahmed entirely to herself.
Who acts: fairy, those · What happens: hope, mean, attach · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, fairy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, those), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hoped | nsubj |
| 2 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 means | mark |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hoped | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 attach | mark |
| 7 | attach | attach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | xcomp |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahmed | compound |
| 9 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 attach | obj |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 7 attach | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 attach | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | fairy | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | those | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attach not said to happen | to-infinitive | those not said here | Prince Ahmed | fairy | entirely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Patient to herself=Co-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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