The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 93
The prince immediately perceived Schaibar, who, as he came forward, looked at the prince with a glance that chilled his soul in his body, and asked Perie Banou, when he first accosted her, who that man was.
Who acts: prince, glance · What happens: perceive, come forward, look, chill, ask, accost · To what, where: Schaibar, soul, body, Perie
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, glance), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 perceived | advmod |
| 4 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 perceived | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 who | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 Schaibar | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perceived | parataxis |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 glance | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 glance | det |
| 20 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prince | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 chilled | nsubj |
| 22 | chilled | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 glance | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 soul | nmod:poss |
| 24 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chilled | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chilled | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asked | cc |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perceived | conj |
| 31 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 asked | iobj |
| 32 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Perie | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 accosted | punct |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 accosted | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 accosted | nsubj |
| 36 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 accosted | advmod |
| 37 | accosted | accost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 asked | parataxis |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 accosted | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 was | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 was | nsubj |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 man | det |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 was | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 accosted | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the prince | Schaibar | immediately property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer schaibar=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come forward | past | prince | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | prince not said here | at the prince with a glance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chill | past | a glance | prince's soul | prince's body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince not said here | Perie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent perie=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | accost | past | prince | Perie | first property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | be | past | who nsubj; that man nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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