The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 64
Yun-Ying was dressed in white underneath, but her overdress was bright blue, embroidered with beautiful flowers which she had worked herself; and she stood in the door of the hut, with a peach tree in full bloom over her head, making such a picture of youth and loveliness that Pei-Hang’s heart seemed to jump into his throat, and beat there fast enough to choke him.
Who acts: overdress, Ying, heart · What happens: dress, be, embroider, work, stand, make · To what, where: Yun, white, beautiful flowers, door, picture, loveliness
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 (overdress, Ying, heart), 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 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ying | punct |
| 3 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yun | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 white | case |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dressed | obl |
| 8 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 5 dressed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blue | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 blue | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 overdress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | overdress | overdress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blue | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 blue | cop |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blue | amod |
| 15 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dressed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 embroidered | punct |
| 17 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 blue | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 flowers | case |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 embroidered | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 worked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 worked | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 worked | aux |
| 24 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 worked | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stood | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stood | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hut | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hut | det |
| 35 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 door | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tree | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 tree | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tree | det |
| 39 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tree | compound |
| 40 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 bloom | case |
| 42 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bloom | amod |
| 43 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tree | nmod |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 head | nmod:poss |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bloom | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 making | punct |
| 48 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 stood | advcl |
| 49 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 51 picture | det:predet |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 picture | det |
| 51 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 making | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 youth | case |
| 53 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 picture | nmod |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 loveliness | cc |
| 55 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 picture | conj |
| 56 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 62 seemed | mark |
| 57 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Hang | compound |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 Pei | punct |
| 59 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 heart | nmod:poss |
| 60 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 59 Hang | case |
| 61 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 seemed | nsubj |
| 62 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 loveliness | acl |
| 63 | to | to | PART | _ | 64 jump | mark |
| 64 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 62 seemed | xcomp |
| 65 | into | into | ADP | _ | 67 throat | case |
| 66 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 throat | nmod:poss |
| 67 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 jump | obl |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 beat | punct |
| 69 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 beat | cc |
| 70 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stood | conj |
| 71 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 70 beat | advmod |
| 72 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 70 beat | advmod |
| 73 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 70 beat | advmod |
| 74 | to | to | PART | _ | 75 choke | mark |
| 75 | choke | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 70 beat | advcl |
| 76 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 choke | obj |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Yun Ying | white | underneath property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Ying's overdress | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | Ying's overdress not said here | with beautiful flowers | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | past · perfect · passive | beautiful flowers | Ying obl | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | Ying | the door of the hut | with a peach tree in full bloom over Ying's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location | |||
| 6 | make | gerund | Ying not said here | such picture of youth and loveliness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product | ||||
| 7 | seem | past | Pei Hang's heart | loveliness not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | jump | to-infinitive | Pei Hang's heart not said here | into Yun's throat result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into throat=Result | ||||
| 9 | beat | past | Ying not said here | there | enough, fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 10 | choke | to-infinitive | Ying not said here | Yun | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
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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