The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 11
But the other sixty-nine maidens, being jealous, laughed scornfully at her, saying: “Not so fast, oh gallant warrior!
Who acts: other nine maidens · What happens: be, laugh, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (other nine maidens), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maidens | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maidens | amod |
| 4 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nine | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sixty | punct |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 maidens | nummod |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jealous | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 jealous | cop |
| 10 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maidens | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jealous | punct |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laughed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laughed | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 20 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fast | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 saying | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 24 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 22 fast | discourse |
| 25 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 warrior | amod |
| 26 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fast | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | jealous property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the other nine maidens | at straightway; scornfully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the other nine maidens not said here | fast property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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