The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 93
The master had a daughter who was attending school at a convent some distance from home, and very often he sent the dog and the cat with presents to the girl.
Who acts: master, daughter · What happens: have, attend, send · To what, where: daughter, school, convent, dog, girl
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 (master, daughter), 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 | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 attending | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attending | aux |
| 8 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attending | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 convent | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 convent | det |
| 12 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attending | obl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 convent | appos |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 distance | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 often | advmod |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 sent | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dog | det |
| 24 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cat | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cat | det |
| 27 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dog | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 presents | case |
| 29 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 cat | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 girl | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 girl | det |
| 32 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the master | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | attend | past · progressive | a daughter | school | a convent | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal | |||
| 3 | send | past | master | the dog and the cat with presents | the girl | often property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme to girl=Destination |
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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