The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 2

When the young prince was fifteen years old his father’s only sister, who had married the king of a distant country, wrote to her brother begging him to permit his son to pay her a visit, as she greatly desired to see the nephew of whom she had received the most excellent reports.

Who acts: young prince, father, sister · What happens: be, marry, write, beg, permit, pay · To what, where: sister, brother, king, son, nephew, excellent reports

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 (young prince, father, sister), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 old	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prince	amod
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sister	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sister	nsubj
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sister	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 sister	advmod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wrote	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 married	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 married	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 married	aux
17	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sister	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 married	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 country	det
22	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 country	amod
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 king	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sister	punct
25	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wrote	obl
29	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 wrote	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 begging	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 permit	mark
32	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begging	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 permit	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 pay	mark
36	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 permit	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pay	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 visit	det
39	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pay	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 desired	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 desired	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 desired	nsubj
43	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	44 desired	advmod
44	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wrote	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 see	mark
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 desired	xcomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 nephew	det
48	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 see	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 whom	case
50	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 nephew	nmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 received	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 received	aux
53	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 whom	acl:relcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 reports	det
55	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	56 excellent	advmod
56	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 reports	amod
57	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 received	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young prince			year	old property	tree rules
2	is a	present	his father	sister				tree rules
3	marry	past · perfect · passive		sister			the king of a distant country obj	tree rules
4	write	past	sister		sister's brother			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient
5	beg speech: request	gerund	sister not said here		king			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	permit not said to happen	to-infinitive	sister not said here	king's son				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
7	pay	to-infinitive	sister not said here		sister		a visit obj	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset
8	desire	past	sister				greatly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	sister not said here	the nephew				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nephew=Stimulus
10	receive	past · perfect	sister	the excellent reports				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 2