The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 52
He had suffered greatly, and his only comfort was when the good queen visited him.
Who acts: joy, only comfort · What happens: suffer, be, comfort
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 (joy, only comfort), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suffered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffered | aux |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 suffered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 visited | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 visited | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comfort | amod |
| 9 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visited | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 visited | cop |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 visited | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 queen | amod |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visited | nsubj |
| 15 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffered | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 visited | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past · perfect | joy | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | joy's only comfort | the good queen nsubj; joy obj; visit property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | comfort | joy | nom comfort «state 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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