The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 50
“And I will tell you mine,” began Pei-Hang, but Yun-Ying stopped him, smiling.
Who acts: end, Yun Ying · What happens: tell, begin, stop, smile · To what, where: end, you, Pei · 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 (end, Yun Ying), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hang | punct |
| 13 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pei | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 stopped | cc |
| 16 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ying | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yun | punct |
| 18 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 stopped | nsubj |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stopped | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smiling | punct |
| 22 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 stopped | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | end | end | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient my=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Pei Hang | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | Yun Ying | Pei | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | Yun Ying not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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