The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 125
The “good queen” lived in a country which was far away, but was able to keep herself well-informed of all that went on, and she knew what the wicked queen desired.
Who acts: good queen, country, Queen · What happens: live, be, keep, inform, go on, know · To what, where: country, Queen, wicked queen
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 (good queen, country, Queen), 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 | 4 queen | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 away | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 away | cop |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 country | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 informed | advmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 well | punct |
| 23 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 keep | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 informed | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 all | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 knew | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 knew | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 queen | det |
| 35 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 queen | amod |
| 36 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 what | nsubj |
| 37 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 queen | acl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the good queen | a country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a country | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the good queen not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the good queen not said here | Queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | inform speech: other | participle | the good queen not said here | of all; well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent of all=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go on | past | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | know | past | Queen | what the wicked queen ccomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | desire | participle | the wicked queen not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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