The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 113
If our coming into this island is displeasing to him, he will appear in the shape of a dreadful monster; but if he approves of your design, he will show himself in the shape of a handsome man.
Who acts: our, Mobarec, your · What happens: come, displease, appear, approve, show, design · To what, where: island, shape, Mobarec
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (our, Mobarec, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 displeasing | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 displeasing | nsubj |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 displeasing | csubj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 displeasing | aux |
| 8 | displeasing | displease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 appear | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 displeasing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 displeasing | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appear | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 appear | aux |
| 14 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shape | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shape | det |
| 17 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appear | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 monster | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 monster | det |
| 20 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 monster | amod |
| 21 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shape | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 show | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 show | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 approves | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 approves | nsubj |
| 26 | approves | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 show | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 design | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 design | nmod:poss |
| 29 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 approves | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 approves | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 show | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 show | aux |
| 33 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 appear | conj |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 show | iobj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 shape | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 shape | det |
| 37 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 show | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 man | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 40 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 man | amod |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shape | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | this island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into island=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | displease a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | our | island | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | appear | future | Mobarec | the shape of a dreadful monster | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location | ||||
| 4 | approve a condition, not said to happen | present | Mobarec | of your design | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | show | future | Mobarec | Mobarec | in the shape of a handsome man | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in shape=Topic | |||
| 6 | design | your | nom design «act 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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