The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 73
Perie Banou was seated in this hall, on a throne of massy gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly dressed.
Who acts: beautiful fairies, extraordinary size · What happens: seat, enrich, attend, dress, pearl · To what, where: Perie, hall, all
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 (beautiful fairies, extraordinary size), 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 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Perie | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 throne | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 throne | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 throne | det |
| 11 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 13 | massy | massy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gold | amod |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throne | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enriched | punct |
| 16 | enriched | enrich | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 throne | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 diamonds | case |
| 18 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 enriched | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rubies | punct |
| 20 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 diamonds | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pearls | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pearls | cc |
| 23 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seated | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 size | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 size | det |
| 26 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 size | amod |
| 27 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pearls | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 attended | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 attended | cc |
| 30 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seated | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 hand | det |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 attended | obl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 number | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 number | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 number | amod |
| 37 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 attended | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 fairies | case |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fairies | amod |
| 40 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 number | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dressed | punct |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 44 dressed | advmod |
| 44 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Perie | this hall | pearls of a extraordinary size obl; a throne of massy gold parataxis | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hall=Location | |||
| 2 | enrich | participle | with diamonds and rubies | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attend | participle | by a great number of beautiful fairies; on each hand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dress | participle · passive | beautiful fairies not said here | all | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | pearl | a extraordinary size | nom pearl «possession 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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