The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 21
“Then you shall have your desire,” said the king, and turning to one of his attendants, he told him to fetch a large fish’s skin.
Who acts: you, king, your · What happens: have, say, turn, tell, fetch, desire · To what, where: desire, one, fish, skin · 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 (you, king, your), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 desire | nmod:poss |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turning | cc |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 turning | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 attendants | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | nsubj |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fetch | mark |
| 26 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 told | xcomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fish | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fish | amod |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 skin | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 fish | case |
| 31 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fetch | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | you | your desire | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | the king not said here | one of king's attendants | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to one=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | king | fish | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fetch not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | a large fish's skin | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 6 | desire in a quote | your | nom desire «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/21/