The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 9
As she desired to dress, the princes contented themselves with telling her how great a pleasure it was to them to have come soon enough to contribute each in any degree towards relieving her from the imminent danger she was in, and what ardent prayers they had offered for the continuance of her life; after which they retired.
Who acts: princess, princes, pleasure, great pleasure, women, life · What happens: desire, dress, content, tell, be, contribute · To what, where: women, great pleasure, princess, each, degree, imminent danger · 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, princes, pleasure, great pleasure), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 desired | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 retired | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 dress | mark |
| 5 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desired | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 contented | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princes | det |
| 8 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 contented | nsubj |
| 9 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 contented | obj |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 telling | mark |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 contented | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 telling | iobj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pleasure | amod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pleasure | det |
| 17 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 telling | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | cop |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 telling | advmod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 contribute | mark |
| 28 | contribute | contribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 telling | xcomp |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 contribute | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 degree | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 degree | det |
| 32 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 contribute | obl |
| 33 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 34 relieving | mark |
| 34 | relieving | relieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 contribute | advcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 relieving | obj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 danger | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 danger | det |
| 38 | imminent | imminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 danger | amod |
| 39 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 relieving | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 in | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 in | cop |
| 42 | in | in | ADV | _ | 39 danger | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 offered | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 offered | cc |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 50 offered | obj |
| 46 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 prayers | amod |
| 47 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 offered | aux |
| 50 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 contented | conj |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 continuance | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 continuance | det |
| 53 | continuance | continuance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 offered | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 life | case |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 life | nmod:poss |
| 56 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 continuance | nmod |
| 57 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 61 retired | punct |
| 58 | after | after | ADP | _ | 59 which | case |
| 59 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 61 retired | obl |
| 60 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 retired | nsubj |
| 61 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 61 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dress not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | content | past | the princes | women = woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the princes not said here | a great pleasure | princess | soon property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | pleasure | a great pleasure not said here | women = woman nsubj; come property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | contribute not said to happen | to-infinitive | a great pleasure not said here | each | any degree | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent each=Theme | |||
| 7 | relieve | gerund | a great pleasure not said here | princess | from the imminent danger | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source from danger=Theme | |||
| 8 | is | past | princess | the imminent danger not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | offer | past · perfect · passive | ardent prayers | for the continuance of princess's life; what obj; women = woman nsubj:pass | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal what=Theme | ||||
| 10 | retire | past | women = woman | which obl | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 11 | continue | princess's life | nom continuance «act intransitive»: of=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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