The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 129
He told her all that had happened, and was so much concerned for having been so foolish that the queen, instead of adding to his vexation by reproving or laughing at him, comforted him.
Who acts: much, that · What happens: tell, happen, be, have, add, reprove · To what, where: queen, much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 happened | det:predet |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 concerned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 concerned | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 concerned | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 concerned | advmod |
| 13 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 concerned | advcl |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 foolish | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 foolish | advmod |
| 18 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 having | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 queen | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 queen | det |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foolish | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 adding | punct |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 adding | mark |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 instead | fixed |
| 25 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 having | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 vexation | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 vexation | nmod:poss |
| 28 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 adding | obl |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 reproving | mark |
| 30 | reproving | reprove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 adding | advcl |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 laughing | cc |
| 32 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 reproving | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 laughing | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 comforted | punct |
| 36 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 comforted | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | much | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | concerned property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | participle | the queen advcl; foolish property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | gerund | to much's vexation | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to vexation=Co-Patient | |||||
| 7 | reprove | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | laugh | gerund | at much | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | comfort | past | much not said here | much | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 10 | vex | much | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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