The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 74
She would have liked to send Pei-Hang away, but she knew it would not be safe to do that if the red cord had really been tied to his foot and Yun-Ying’s, so she asked him to come inside, and they would talk it over.
Who acts: mother, it, girls · What happens: like, send, know, not be, do, tie · To what, where: Pei, red cord, Yun, foot · 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 (mother, it, girls), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 liked | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 liked | aux |
| 4 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 liked | xcomp |
| 7 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pei | punct |
| 9 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pei | flat |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 send | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 liked | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 safe | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 safe | cop |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 safe | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 tied | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 tied | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cord | det |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cord | amod |
| 26 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tied | aux |
| 28 | really | really | ADV | _ | 30 tied | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 tied | aux:pass |
| 30 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 do | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 foot | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 foot | nmod:poss |
| 33 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tied | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Yun | cc |
| 35 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 foot | appos |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Ying | punct |
| 37 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Yun | conj |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Yun | case |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 asked | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 asked | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 asked | nsubj |
| 42 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 asked | iobj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 come | mark |
| 45 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 asked | xcomp |
| 46 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 45 come | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 talk | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 talk | cc |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 talk | nsubj |
| 50 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 talk | aux |
| 51 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 liked | conj |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 talk | obj |
| 53 | over | over | ADP | _ | 51 talk | compound:prt |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would · perfect | mother | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | Pei | away property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pei=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | past | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is | would | it | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | tie a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the red cord | to Pei's foot | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | mother | Yun | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | inside property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | talk over | would | girls = girl | foot | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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