The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 20

So Pei-Hang’s mother made him a little shirt out of an old fishing-net, and she took care that his pigtail should be plaited with the brightest of red silk.

Who acts: mother, brightest · What happens: make, take, plait · To what, where: little shirt, Hang, old fishing net, care, pigtail

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, brightest), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
2	Pei	Pei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hang	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Pei	punct
4	Hang	Hang	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Hang	case
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shirt	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shirt	amod
11	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	18 net	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 net	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 net	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 net	amod
16	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 net	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fishing	punct
18	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 plaited	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pigtail	nmod:poss
26	pigtail	pigtail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 plaited	nsubj:pass
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 plaited	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 plaited	aux:pass
29	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 took	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 brightest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brightest	det
32	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 plaited	obl:agent
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 silk	case
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 silk	amod
35	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brightest	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	Pei Hang's mother	a little shirt	Hang	a old fishing net	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary shirt=Product
2	take	past	mother	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	plait	should · passive	the brightest of red silk	Hang's pigtail			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 20