The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 19
The prince had not before taken notice of it, but, opening it, found inside a golden key.
What happens: take, open, find, notice · To what, where: prince, notice, golden key
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: 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 before | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 notice | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opening | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 opening | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opening | punct |
| 13 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 opening | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 taken | conj |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 20 key | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 key | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 key | amod |
| 20 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the prince | notice of notice xcomp; before property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | notice | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | participle | a golden key | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | notice | notice | nom notice «communication transitive»: 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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