The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 12
The queen, as may be imagined, was amazed when the sultan gave her an account of what he had discovered.
Who acts: queen, sultan · What happens: imagine, be, give, discover · To what, where: queen, account, mother
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 (queen, sultan), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 amazed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 imagined | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 imagined | mark |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 imagined | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 imagined | aux:pass |
| 7 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 queen | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 amazed | cop |
| 10 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 gave | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sultan | det |
| 13 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 amazed | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 account | det |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 account | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 discovered | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 discovered | aux |
| 22 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may · passive | the queen not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF» | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the queen | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the sultan | a account | mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient account=Theme | |||
| 4 | discover | past · perfect | sultan | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=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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