The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 19
The fairy reminded him of the old woman on whom he had compassion, and said that she was the spy of the sultan, and had told him all she had seen and heard.
Who acts: fairy, Ahmed · What happens: remind, have, say, be, tell, see · To what, where: Ahmed, compassion, spy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, Ahmed), 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 | 3 reminded | nsubj |
| 3 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reminded | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reminded | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 woman | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 13 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reminded | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 spy | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spy | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spy | det |
| 21 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sultan | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sultan | det |
| 24 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spy | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 told | aux |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reminded | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | iobj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 him | det |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 seen | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 told | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 heard | cc |
| 35 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 seen | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | the fairy | Ahmed | of the old woman | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of woman=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | past | Ahmed | compassion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the fairy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | fairy | the spy | of the sultan | tree rules | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the fairy not said here | Ahmed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | fairy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | hear | participle | fairy not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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