The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 62
This defeat of the wicked queen’s plans was so great a shock to her that she immediately perished.
Who acts: defeat, queen, wicked queen · What happens: be, perish, defeat, plan · To what, where: plans
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 (defeat, queen, wicked 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 defeat | det |
| 2 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 great | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plans | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 queen | amod |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plans | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 queen | case |
| 8 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 defeat | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 great | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shock | det |
| 13 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 great | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shock | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 perished | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 perished | nsubj |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 perished | advmod |
| 19 | perished | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shock | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this defeat of the wicked queen's plans | a shock to queen parataxis; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perish | past | queen | immediately property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | defeat | the wicked queen's plans | nom defeat «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | plan | the wicked queen | nom plan «cognition 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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