The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 8
All the maidens in the court and city who were in their twentieth year underwent the trial one after another, but the glass never remained bright and clear.
Who acts: court, maidens, glass · What happens: be, undergo, not remain · To what, where: trial
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 (court, maidens, glass), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 maidens | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 underwent | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maidens | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 city | cc |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 court | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 year | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 year | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 year | nmod:poss |
| 13 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 year | amod |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 court | acl:relcl |
| 15 | underwent | undergo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trial | det |
| 17 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 underwent | obj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 trial | flat |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 another | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remained | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 remained | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 glass | det |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remained | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 remained | advmod |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 underwent | conj |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 remained | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 clear | cc |
| 29 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bright | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 underwent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the court and city | in court's twentieth year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | undergo | past | all maidens in the court and city | the trial | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not remain | past | the glass | bright property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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