The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 56
“No, no,” replied the fairy, “I will satisfy the sultan, and whatever advice the sorceress may give him (for I see that he harkens to her counsel) he shall find no fault with you or me.
Who acts: fairy, whatever, sorceress, sultan · What happens: reply, satisfy, advice, give, see, harken · To what, where: sultan, advice, fault · 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, whatever, sorceress, sultan), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 satisfy | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 satisfy | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 satisfy | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 satisfy | aux |
| 14 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sultan | det |
| 16 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 satisfy | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advice | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advice | cc |
| 19 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 advice | nsubj |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sorceress | det |
| 22 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 advice | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 harkens | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 harkens | nsubj |
| 32 | harkens | harken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 find | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 counsel | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 35 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 harkens | obl |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 harkens | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 find | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 find | aux |
| 39 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 see | ccomp |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 fault | det |
| 41 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 find | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 find | obl |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 me | cc |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 you | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the fairy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | satisfy in a quote | future | the fairy = fairy | the sultan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sultan=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | advice in a quote | whatever | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | give in a quote | may | the sorceress | advice not said here | sultan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | the fairy = fairy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | harken in a quote | present | sultan | to fairy's counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find in a quote | shall | sultan | no fault | with you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
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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