The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 42
“What does this mean?” asked Pei-Hang, who could hardly take his eyes away from her face to look at her foot.
Who acts: this, Pei · What happens: mean, ask, take, look · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, Pei), 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 | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 mean | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hang | punct |
| 11 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Pei | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 away | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 foot | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 foot | nmod:poss |
| 27 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 look | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | this | What obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | take | could | Pei Hang | sun's eyes | who nsubj; away, hardly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Pei Hang not said here | at dream's foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=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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