The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 139
“Really, my son,” said the queen, smiling, “this is a very queer old man; but have you a mind to believe him again?
Who acts: son, this, you · What happens: say, smile, be, have, believe · To what, where: queen, queer old man, mind, son · 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 (son, this, you), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 5 son | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Really | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiling | punct |
| 12 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 man | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 queer | advmod |
| 19 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smiling | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mind | det |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 believe | mark |
| 29 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 have | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 believe | obj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 believe | advmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | my son | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | my son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | a queer old man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | son | again | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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