The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 129
I will give you a looking-glass, which will clearly reflect no other image than that of the young maiden you are in search of.
Who acts: I, looking glass, you · What happens: give, look, reflect, be, image · To what, where: looking glass, you, other image, search, young maiden
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 (I, looking glass, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 glass | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reflect | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 reflect | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reflect | aux |
| 12 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 13 reflect | advmod |
| 13 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glass | acl:relcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 image | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 image | amod |
| 16 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflect | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 image | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 maiden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maiden | amod |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 image | nmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 search | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 search | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 search | case |
| 26 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 maiden | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 search | case |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a looking glass | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient glass=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | reflect | future | a looking glass | no other image of the young maiden | than that; clearly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | you | search | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | image | the young maiden | than that | nom image «cognition transitive»: than=obl of=patient |
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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