The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 1
“Fair Prince, on the charger so gray, Turn thee back!
Who acts: Fair Prince · What happens: turn back · To what, where: thee
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fair Prince), 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 | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Turn | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 charger | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 charger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 charger | det |
| 7 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | appos |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 gray | case |
| 9 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charger | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
| 11 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 Turn | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 Turn | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back in a quote | infinitive | Fair Prince | thee | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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