The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 32
One day when they were out together the prince passed the house where Varna’s former governess and her daughter lived.
Who acts: confidence, prince, former governess · What happens: be, pass, live · To what, where: house
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 (confidence, prince, former governess), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 together | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 together | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 together | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 together | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | advmod |
| 14 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 governess | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Varna | case |
| 16 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 governess | amod |
| 17 | governess | governess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 daughter | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 governess | conj |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | confidence | out, together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the prince | the house | day | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | live | past | Varna's former governess and governess's daughter | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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