The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 90
The fairy ordered a gold chafing-dish to be lighted on the porch of her palace.
Who acts: fairy, gold · What happens: order, chafe, light · To what, where: gold, dish, porch
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, gold), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | chafing | chafe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 gold | acl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 dish | punct |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chafing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lighted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lighted | aux:pass |
| 11 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dish | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 porch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 porch | det |
| 14 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lighted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 porch | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the fairy | a gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chafe | gerund | a gold not said here | dish | vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | light | to-infinitive · passive | a gold not said here | dish not said here | the porch of fairy's palace | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP» |
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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