The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 55
“I wonder if she is real, or only a dream-maiden, after all,” he said to himself.
Who acts: Pei, Ying · What happens: wonder, be, say · To what, where: 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 (Pei, 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 real | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 real | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 real | cop |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 maiden | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 maiden | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 12 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maiden | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dream | punct |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 real | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wonder | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Pei | after all | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Ying | a dream maiden obl; real property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pei | Pei | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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