The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 54
It was not long before the Queen learned from the witch of the mountain that Prince Varna had returned, and she immediately sought to destroy him.
Who acts: comfort, Queen, Varna · What happens: not be, learn, return, seek, destroy · To what, where: mountain, 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 (comfort, Queen, Varna), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 learned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 learned | nsubj |
| 8 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 witch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learned | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mountain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 witch | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 returned | obj |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Varna | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 returned | aux |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sought | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sought | nsubj |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 sought | advmod |
| 24 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 learned | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 destroy | mark |
| 26 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sought | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 destroy | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | comfort | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | the Queen | from the witch of the mountain | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from witch=Source | ||||
| 3 | return | past · perfect | Varna Prince | the mountain | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | past | queen | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | queen not said here | Varna | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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