The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 36
“When you have once seen her, you will be able to think of nothing else.”
Who acts: you · What happens: see, be, think · To what, where: wife
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 seen | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 seen | advmod |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 able | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 think | obl |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 nothing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | wife | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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