The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 51
So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born, his parents hid him away in an underground palace, with nurses and servants, and everything else a king’s son might desire.
Who acts: fair young Prince, parents, everything · What happens: be, bear, hide away, desire · To what, where: due time, child, underground palace
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 (fair young Prince, parents, everything), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 hid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 time | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | advcl |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 time | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hid | nsubj |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hid | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 hid | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 21 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 palace | amod |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nurses | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 nurses | case |
| 25 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 palace | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 servants | cc |
| 27 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nurses | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 desire | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 desire | cc |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 desire | nsubj |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 everything | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 king | case |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 everything | appos |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 desire | aux |
| 37 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hid | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a fair young Prince | in due time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | due time not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hide away | past | child's parents | child | a underground palace | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in palace=Location | ||
| 4 | desire | might | everything | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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