The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 49
Great was the joy of this meeting, and when they were somewhat composed the ladies asked the prince to tell them of his adventures.
Who acts: Great joy, prince · What happens: be, compose, ask, tell, adventure · To what, where: Great joy, mother, prince · 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 (Great joy, prince), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 joy | det |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 meeting | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 meeting | det |
| 7 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 composed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 composed | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 composed | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 composed | aux:pass |
| 13 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 14 composed | advmod |
| 14 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 joy | orphan |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ladies | det |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 composed | obj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 tell | mark |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 adventures | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 25 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great joy | of this meeting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compose | past · passive | mother | the ladies obj; somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Great joy | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Great joy not said here | mother | of prince's adventures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 5 | adventure | prince | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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