The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 72
Besides, the Moon Fairy didn’t tie my foot to his.”
Who acts: Moon Fairy · What happens: not tie · To what, where: foot
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 (Moon Fairy), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 8 tie | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fairy | compound |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tie | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tie | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tie | advmod |
| 8 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tie | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 his | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tie | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tie | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tie | past · do-support | the Moon Fairy | my foot | Yun obj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient his=Result |
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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