The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 86
She went home, but when she asked for three more baskets her mother said that the beans were few and she could not need so many.
Who acts: Fukan, mother, beans · What happens: go, ask, say, be, not need · To what, where: many · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fukan, mother, beans), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 asked | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 baskets | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 baskets | nummod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 baskets | amod |
| 12 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asked | obl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 few | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beans | det |
| 18 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 few | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 few | cop |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 need | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 need | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 need | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 need | advmod |
| 25 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 few | conj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 many | advmod |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 need | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Fukan | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Fukan | for three more baskets | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fukan's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the beans | few property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not need | could | mother | many | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot many=Theme |
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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