The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 67

When they had put her into bed, the quilt of which was embroidered brocade, and the coverlet cloth of gold, one of the women went out, and returned soon with a china cup in her hand, full of a certain liquor, which she presented to the sorceress, while the other helped her to sit up.

Who acts: arms, women, certain liquor, other, woman · What happens: put, embroider, go out, return, present, help · To what, where: sorceress, bed, brocade, woman

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 (arms, women, certain liquor, other), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quilt	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 quilt	det
10	quilt	quilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 embroidered	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 embroidered	aux:pass
14	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 quilt	acl:relcl
15	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 embroidered	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 one	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cloth	det
19	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cloth	compound
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cloth	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 put	parataxis
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 went	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 women	det
27	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 one	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 went	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 returned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 returned	cc
32	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	conj
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 returned	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 cup	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cup	det
36	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cup	compound
37	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 returned	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hand	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cup	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 full	punct
42	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hand	amod
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 liquor	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 liquor	det
45	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 liquor	amod
46	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 full	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 presented	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 presented	nsubj
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 presented	nsubj
50	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 liquor	acl:relcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 sorceress	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sorceress	det
53	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 presented	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 helped	punct
55	while	while	SCONJ	_	58 helped	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 other	det
57	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 helped	nsubj
58	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 returned	conj
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 helped	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 sit	mark
61	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 helped	xcomp
62	up	up	ADP	_	61 sit	compound:prt
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect	arms = arm		sorceress	bed	the quilt obl; one the coverlet cloth of gold parataxis	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
2	embroider	past · passive		brocade			of the quilt	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»
3	go out	past	the women					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	return	past	the women not said here				with a china cup in woman's hand; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	present	past	a certain liquor		the sorceress		woman nsubj	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sorceress=Recipient
6	help	past	the other	woman				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	sit up	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 67