The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 71
And sometimes, for a treat, she made him some bean soup, or gave him a little dish of fried pork.
Who acts: mother, some · What happens: make, bean, give, fry · To what, where: Wang, soup, little dish
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 (mother, some), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 made | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sometimes | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 treat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 treat | det |
| 6 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 treat | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 bean | nsubj |
| 12 | bean | bean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | parataxis |
| 13 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bean | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dish | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dish | amod |
| 20 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pork | case |
| 22 | fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 pork | amod |
| 23 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dish | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | mother | Wang | for a treat; sometimes property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent he=Product for treat=Asset | |||
| 2 | bean | present | some | soup | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | mother not said here | a little dish of fried pork | Wang | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dish=Theme | |||
| 4 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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