The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 123
In the mountain there lived an old witch whom the queen knew well, and she sent to her a trusty servant, asking that she find some way of getting rid of her stepson, who stood in the way of her own son.
Who acts: queen, way, stepson · What happens: live, know, send, ask, find, get · To what, where: old witch, mountain, trusty servant, wife, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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, way, stepson), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mountain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | amod |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obj |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knew | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 witch | acl:relcl |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 knew | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 21 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 servant | amod |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asking | punct |
| 24 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sent | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 find | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 asking | ccomp |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 way | det |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | obj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 getting | mark |
| 31 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 way | acl |
| 32 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 getting | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 stepson | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 stepson | nmod:poss |
| 35 | stepson | stepson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rid | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stood | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 stood | nsubj |
| 38 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stepson | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 way | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 way | det |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stood | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 son | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 son | nmod:poss |
| 44 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 son | amod |
| 45 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 way | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old witch | the mountain; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the queen | a old witch | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | send | past | Queen | a trusty servant | wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Queen not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | Queen | some way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 6 | get | gerund | some way not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | stand | past | Queen's stepson | the way of Queen's own son | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
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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