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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 69

Wang Chih was only a poor man, but he had a wife and children to love, and they made him so happy that he would not have changed places with the Emperor himself.

Who acts: Wang, wife · What happens: be, have, love, make, not change · To what, where: poor man, wife, Wang, places

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, wife), 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

nsubjflatcopadvmoddetamodpunctccnsubjacl:relcldetobjccconjmarkaclpunctccnsubjacl:relclobjadvmodxcompmarknsubjauxadvmodauxadvclobjcasedetnmodnmodpunctrootWangPROPNChihPROPNwasAUXonlyADVaDETpoorADJmanNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONhadVERBaDETwifeNOUNandCCONJchildrenNOUNtoPARTloveVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONmadeVERBhimPRONsoADVhappyADJthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXnotPARThaveAUXchangedVERBplacesNOUNwithADPtheDETEmperorPROPNhimselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WangWangPROPNNumber=Sing7 mannsubj
2ChihChihPROPNNumber=Sing1 Wangflat
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 mancop
4onlyonlyADV_7 manadvmod
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 mandet
6poorpoorADJDegree=Pos7 manamod
7manmanNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
8,,PUNCT_11 hadpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 hadcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 hadnsubj
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 manacl:relcl
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 wifedet
13wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 hadobj
14andandCCONJ_15 childrencc
15childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur13 wifeconj
16totoPART_17 lovemark
17loveloveVERBVerbForm=Inf13 wifeacl
18,,PUNCT_21 madepunct
19andandCCONJ_21 madecc
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 madensubj
21mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 manacl:relcl
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 madeobj
23sosoADV_24 happyadvmod
24happyhappyADJDegree=Pos21 madexcomp
25thatthatSCONJ_30 changedmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 changednsubj
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 changedaux
28notnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 changedadvmod
29havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf30 changedaux
30changedchangeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 madeadvcl
31placesplaceNOUNNumber=Plur30 changedobj
32withwithADP_34 Emperorcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Emperordet
34EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing31 placesnmod
35himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes34 Emperornmod
36..PUNCT_7 manpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastWanga poor mantree rules
2havepastWanga wife and childrenvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3loveto-infinitiveWang not said herea wife and children not said herevn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4makepastwifeWanghappy propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
5not changewould · perfectWangplaceswith the Emperor Wangvn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent place=Theme with emperor=Co-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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