The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 128
This the wicked queen knew, so she made every effort to entice him away from his father’s dominions.
Who acts: This, Queen, effort · What happens: know, make, entice · To what, where: effort, prince
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 (This, Queen, effort), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 effort | det |
| 11 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 entice | mark |
| 13 | entice | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 entice | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 entice | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 dominions | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 away | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | This | the wicked queen nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Queen | every effort | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | entice | to-infinitive | every effort not said here | prince | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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