The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 29
Then the seventy fair maidens fell to the ground headlong; and some were bruised and some were broken, but the only one who escaped unhurt was the maiden who loved Rasalu, for she fell out last, on the top of the others, and so came to no harm.
Who acts: seventy fair maidens, only one, maiden, Rasalu · What happens: fall, bruise, break, escape, be, love · To what, where: some, maiden, Rasalu, top, harm
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 (seventy fair maidens, only one, maiden, Rasalu), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maidens | det |
| 3 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maidens | amod |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maidens | amod |
| 5 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bruised | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bruised | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bruised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bruised | aux:pass |
| 15 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fell | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broken | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 broken | aux:pass |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bruised | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 maiden | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 maiden | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 maiden | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 escaped | nsubj |
| 26 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 escaped | xcomp |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 maiden | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 maiden | det |
| 30 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 loved | nsubj |
| 32 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 33 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 loved | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fell | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 fell | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fell | nsubj |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 fell | advmod |
| 39 | last | last | ADV | _ | 37 fell | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 top | punct |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 top | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 top | det |
| 43 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 others | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 others | det |
| 46 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 top | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 came | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 came | cc |
| 49 | so | so | ADV | _ | 50 came | advmod |
| 50 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 harm | case |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 harm | det |
| 53 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 came | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the seventy fair maidens | then | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | |||
| 2 | bruise | past · passive | some | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | some | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | escape | past | the only one | unhurt property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the only one | the maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love | past | the maiden | Rasalu | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rasalu=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | fall out | past | Rasalu | the top of the others | last, out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location | |||
| 8 | come | past | the seventy fair maidens not said here | no harm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location |
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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