The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 29
When Prince Ahmed saw the small case, which the fairy called the largest tent in her treasury, he fancied she had a mind to banter him.
Who acts: Prince, small case, fairy, Noor · What happens: see, fairy, call, fancy, have, banter · To what, where: small case, largest tent, treasury, mind, prince · 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, small case, fairy, Noor), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | flat |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fancied | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 case | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 case | amod |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fairy | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fairy | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fairy | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 case | appos |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fairy | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tent | det |
| 14 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 tent | amod |
| 15 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 treasury | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 18 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tent | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fancied | nsubj |
| 21 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fancied | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mind | det |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 banter | mark |
| 27 | banter | banter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 mind | acl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 banter | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | the small case | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fairy | the small case | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | the fairy not said here | the largest tent | Noor's treasury | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tent=Recipient | |||
| 4 | fancy | past | prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Noor | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 6 | banter | to-infinitive | Noor not said here | prince | 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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