The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 21
At the end of a month after the prince’s return, the fairy, no longer doubting his love for her, proposed herself that he should pay his respects to the sultan.
Who acts: fairy, prince · What happens: doubt, propose, pay, return, love · To what, where: love, presence, end, respects
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, prince), 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 | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proposed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 month | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 month | det |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 return | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fairy | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doubting | punct |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 doubting | advmod |
| 18 | doubting | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fairy | acl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 love | nmod:poss |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 doubting | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 doubting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 24 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 proposed | obj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 pay | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pay | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 pay | aux |
| 29 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 proposed | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 respects | nmod:poss |
| 31 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 pay | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 sultan | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sultan | det |
| 34 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pay | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | gerund | the fairy not said here | fairy's love | for presence; long property | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent love=Theme for she=Attribute | |||
| 2 | propose | past | presence | at the end of a month after the prince's return and the fairy | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | should | fairy | fairy's respects | to the sultan | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | |||
| 4 | return | the prince | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | love | fairy | nom love «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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