The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 109
The Prince smiled, saying, “What help could _you_ give _me_?”
Who acts: Prince, help, _ · What happens: smile, say, _, give · To what, where: you, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, help, _), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 smiled | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 _ | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 _ | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 _ | obj |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | aux |
| 11 | _ | _ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 _ | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | nsubj |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | advcl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 _ | punct |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | _ in a quote | could | help | you | What obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | present | _ | the Prince = prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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