The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 24
“Prince,” replied the fairy, smiling, “what the sultan your father requests is a trifle.
Who acts: Prince, father · What happens: reply, smile, request, be · To what, where: fairy, sultan, trifle · 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 (Prince, father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fairy | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiling | punct |
| 9 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trifle | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 trifle | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 trifle | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sultan | det |
| 14 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trifle | nsubj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 requests | nsubj |
| 17 | requests | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sultan | acl:relcl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 trifle | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 trifle | det |
| 20 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince | the fairy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | request in a quote | present | your father | the sultan not said here | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a trifle | what nsubj; the sultan nsubj | tree rules |
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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