The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 48
Her mother removed the cork and sprinkled the contents of the phial over the bright red feathers, and there before them stood the handsome Prince Varna.
Who acts: mother · What happens: remove, sprinkle, stand · To what, where: cork, contents, bright red feathers, handsome Varna
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), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 removed | nsubj |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cork | det |
| 5 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 removed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sprinkled | cc |
| 7 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 removed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 contents | det |
| 9 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 sprinkled | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 phial | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 phial | det |
| 12 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contents | nmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 feathers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feathers | det |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 17 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sprinkled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 there | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 there | cc |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 removed | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 stood | mark |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Varna | det |
| 25 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Varna | amod |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Varna | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | Zaïda's mother | the cork | there | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Theme | |||
| 2 | sprinkle | past | Zaïda's mother not said here | the contents of the phial | the bright red feathers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme over feather=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | past | mother | the handsome Varna Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer varna=Stimulus |
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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