The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 8
She immediately expressed her joy at seeing them, and thanked them all together, but afterwards Prince Ahmed in particular.
Who acts: princess · What happens: express, see, thank, joy · To what, where: joy, women
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), 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 | 3 expressed | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 expressed | advmod |
| 3 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 joy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | obj |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 expressed | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seeing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thanked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thanked | cc |
| 11 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 expressed | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thanked | obj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 together | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 thanked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 particular | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 particular | cc |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 21 particular | advmod |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ahmed | compound |
| 19 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 particular | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 particular | case |
| 21 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 expressed | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | princess | princess's joy | immediately property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | princess not said here | women = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | princess not said here | women = woman | together property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | joy | princess | nom joy «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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