The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 32
Seeing this, the youngest Princess, who was the only one who could run, fled to her father, the king, in a great fright, saying:
Who acts: youngest Princess, only one · What happens: see, be, run, flee, say · To what, where: this, only one · 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 (youngest Princess, only one), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fled | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Princess | amod |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 one | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | appos |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Princess | punct |
| 17 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 king | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 father | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fright | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fright | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fright | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fright | amod |
| 28 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fled | advcl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the youngest Princess not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the youngest Princess | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | could | the only one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flee | past | the youngest Princess | to Princess's father; a great fright conj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | the youngest Princess not said here | 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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