The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 13
Sadly they mingled their tears, for they were sure that this was the work of the wicked queen and the witch of the mountain.
Who acts: tutor, this · What happens: mingle, be · To what, where: tears, work
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tutor, this), 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 | Sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 mingled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mingled | nsubj |
| 3 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mingled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sure | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mingled | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 work | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 work | det |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 queen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 18 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 queen | amod |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 witch | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mountain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountain | det |
| 25 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 witch | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mingled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mingle | past | tutor | tutor's tears | sadly property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | tutor | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | the work and the witch of the mountain | of the wicked queen; the witch of the mountain conj | tree rules |
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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