The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 56
“Can anything be done, dear lady, that will prolong your stay here?” asked the Rajpoot.
Who acts: dear lady, your · What happens: do, prolong, ask, stay · To what, where: anything, stay, Rajpoot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear lady, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prolong | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prolong | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 prolong | aux |
| 12 | prolong | prolong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lady | acl:relcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stay | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prolong | obj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 prolong | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Rajpoot | det |
| 20 | Rajpoot | Rajpoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can · passive | anything | dear lady obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | prolong in a quote | future | dear lady | your stay | here | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stay=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Rajpoot | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rajpoot=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | your | nom stay «act intransitive»: 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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