The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 67

Then Pei-Hang told her about the dream, and the red cord, and when he said that he wanted to marry her daughter, the old woman did not look at all pleased.

Who acts: Pei, old woman · What happens: tell, say, want, marry, not look · To what, where: Ying, daughter · 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, old woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 told	advmod
2	Pei	Pei	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Pei	punct
4	Hang	Hang	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pei	flat
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 dream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dream	det
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cord	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cord	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cord	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cord	amod
14	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wanted	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 look	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 look	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 look	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 look	advmod
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 marry	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 look	obl
36	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 look	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Pei		Ying	then	about the dream; the red cord conj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about dream=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Pei					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	Pei					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pei not said here	Ying's daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
5	not look	past · do-support	the old woman				at all; pleased property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 67

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 67