The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 58
The fairy, who had her eyes fixed on the pretended sick woman all the time the prince was speaking, ordered two of her women to take her from the men who supported her, conduct her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as they would of herself.
Who acts: fairy, eyes, prince, two, men, woman · What happens: have, fix, pretend, speak, order, take · To what, where: eyes, two, woman, apartment, much care · Speech: someone speaks here
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, eyes, prince, two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 11 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 woman | amod |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 time | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speaking | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speaking | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 speaking | aux |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 woman | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fairy | punct |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 ordered | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 women | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 women | nmod:poss |
| 26 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 two | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ordered | xcomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 men | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 men | det |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 take | obl |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 supported | nsubj |
| 34 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 men | acl:relcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 supported | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 conduct | punct |
| 37 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 take | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 conduct | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 apartment | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 apartment | det |
| 41 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 conduct | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 palace | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 palace | det |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 apartment | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 take | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 take | cc |
| 47 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 ordered | parataxis |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 much | advmod |
| 49 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 care | amod |
| 50 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 take | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 her | case |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 care | nmod |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 would | mark |
| 54 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 would | nsubj |
| 55 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 take | advcl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 herself | case |
| 57 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 55 would | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the fairy | woman's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | woman's eyes not said here | on the pretended sick woman | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | the prince | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | order | past | the fairy | two of woman's women | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent two=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | two of woman's women not said here | woman | from the men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from man=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | support | past | the men | woman | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | conduct | infinitive | two of woman's women not said here | woman | a apartment of the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into apartment=Destination | |||
| 9 | take | infinitive | much care of woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 10 | care | woman | nom care «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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