The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 53
At the same time two of the prince’s attendants, alighting, helped her up, and placed her behind one of their companions.
What happens: alight, help up, place · To what, where: sorceress
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: 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 | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 helped | obl |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 time | flat |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 attendants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 10 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 alighting | punct |
| 12 | alighting | alight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 attendants | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 14 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 helped | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 helped | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 placed | cc |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 helped | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 placed | obj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 placed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 companions | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 companions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | help up | past | sorceress | time | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | place | past | sorceress | behind one of attendants's companions | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme behind one=Destination |
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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