The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 41
That night the mother dreamed that she saw the “good queen,” who told her to go to a certain tree in her garden and to lift up a large stone which she would find beneath it.
Who acts: mother, bird, good queen · What happens: dream, see, tell, go, lift up, find · To what, where: good queen, bird, garden, large stone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, bird, good queen), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dreamed | nsubj |
| 5 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreamed | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 queen | punct |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 queen | amod |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ” | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 queen | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 queen | acl:relcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 garden | nmod:poss |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lift | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 lift | mark |
| 29 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 lift | compound:prt |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stone | det |
| 32 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stone | amod |
| 33 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lift | obj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 find | obj |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 find | aux |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 stone | acl:relcl |
| 38 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | the mother | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past | bird | the good queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the good queen | bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the good queen not said here | bird's garden | to a certain tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | lift up | to-infinitive | the good queen not said here | a large stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | would | bird | a large stone | beneath stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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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