The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 90

Pei-Hang opened the box, and saw inside six round, red seeds, each of them the size of a pea, and these he promised to use as she had directed.

Who acts: Pei, these, swimmer · What happens: open, see, promise, use, direct · To what, where: box, six round red seeds

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, these, swimmer), 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	Pei	Pei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Pei	punct
3	Hang	Hang	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pei	flat
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	parataxis
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	11 six	advmod
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 seeds	nummod
12	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seeds	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seeds	amod
15	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 each	punct
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 seeds	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 each	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 size	det
21	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pea	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pea	det
24	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 size	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 promised	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 promised	cc
27	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 promised	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 promised	nsubj
29	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 use	mark
31	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 promised	xcomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 directed	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 directed	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 directed	aux
35	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 use	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	Pei	the box		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
2	see	past		six round red seeds	the size of a pea obj	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	these		Pei nsubj	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	these not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	direct	past · perfect	swimmer			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 90