The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 81
At length, being assured of the sincerity of his affection for herself, she resolved to grant him the permission which he so ardently desired.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: assure, resolve, grant, desire · To what, where: length, permission, Prince
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resolved | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 assured | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 assured | aux:pass |
| 5 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 length | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sincerity | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sincerity | det |
| 8 | sincerity | sincerity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assured | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 affection | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 affection | nmod:poss |
| 11 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sincerity | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 affection | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 resolved | nsubj |
| 16 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 grant | mark |
| 18 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 resolved | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grant | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 permission | det |
| 21 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grant | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 desired | nsubj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 desired | advmod |
| 25 | ardently | ardently | ADV | _ | 26 desired | advmod |
| 26 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 permission | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | gerund · passive | length not said here | of the sincerity of Prince's affection for fairy | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of sincerity=Topic | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | fairy | length | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant | to-infinitive | fairy not said here | the permission | Prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal permission=Theme | |||
| 4 | desire | participle · passive | the permission | Prince nsubj; ardently property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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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