The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 61
The fairy Perie Banou was at that time at work with her needle; and as she had by her several balls of thread, she took up one, and presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said, “First take this ball of thread, and I will tell you presently the use of it.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: be, have, take up, present, say, take · To what, where: work, one, thread, Prince Ahmed, ball, use · 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), 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 | 8 time | nsubj |
| 3 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fairy | appos |
| 4 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Perie | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 needle | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 needle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 took | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 balls | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 balls | nmod:poss |
| 21 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 balls | amod |
| 22 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 thread | case |
| 24 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 balls | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | parataxis |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 took | compound:prt |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 took | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 32 | presenting | present | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 said | ccomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 presenting | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Ahmed | case |
| 35 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Ahmed | compound |
| 36 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 presenting | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 presenting | punct |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 took | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 take | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 take | punct |
| 41 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 42 take | advmod |
| 42 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 said | ccomp |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 ball | det |
| 44 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 take | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 thread | case |
| 46 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ball | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 tell | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 tell | cc |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 tell | nsubj |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 tell | aux |
| 51 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 take | conj |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 tell | iobj |
| 53 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 55 use | advmod |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 use | det |
| 55 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tell | obj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 it | case |
| 57 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 use | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fairy | work with fairy's needle | at that time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | fairy | by fairy's several balls of thread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | fairy | one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | present | gerund | thread | Prince Ahmed | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ahmed=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | fairy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | this ball of thread | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | fairy | the use of thread | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient use=Topic | |||
| 8 | use in a quote | thread | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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