The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 6
The princess instantly opened her eyes, and sitting up, asked to be dressed, as if she had awakened out of a sound sleep.
Who acts: princess, sitting · What happens: open, sit up, ask, dress, awaken · To what, where: eyes, sound sleep · 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 (princess, sitting), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 asked | csubj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sitting | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 dressed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dressed | aux:pass |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 awakened | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 awakened | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 awakened | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 awakened | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 awakened | aux |
| 21 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 dressed | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 sleep | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sleep | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sleep | det |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sleep | compound |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awakened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the princess | princess's eyes | instantly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit up | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | sitting | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dress | to-infinitive · passive | sitting not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | awaken a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | princess | a sound sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sleep=Location |
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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