The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 122
But she was very careful not to let the Rajah discover her real feelings.
Who acts: Queen, Rajah · What happens: be, not let, discover · To what, where: Rajah, real feelings
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Rajah), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 careful | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 careful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 careful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 careful | advmod |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 let | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 careful | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rajah | det |
| 10 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 11 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feelings | amod |
| 14 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 discover | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Queen | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | to-infinitive | the Rajah | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | discover | infinitive | the Rajah not said here | Queen's real feelings | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic |
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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