The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 93

His mother, who was a very wise woman, as most mothers are, told him the Genii would be angry if he turned their great rivers into brooks, and would probably refuse to give him the pestle and mortar made of jade.

Who acts: mother, most mothers, Genii, Pei · What happens: be, tell, turn, refuse, not give, make · To what, where: wise woman, Pei, great rivers, brooks, pestle · 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, most mothers, Genii, Pei), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 woman	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 woman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 wise	advmod
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 are	mark
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 mothers	amod
13	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 are	nsubj
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Genii	det
19	Genii	Genii	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 angry	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 angry	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 angry	cop
22	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	ccomp
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 turned	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 angry	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 rivers	nmod:poss
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rivers	amod
28	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 brooks	case
30	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 refuse	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 refuse	cc
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 refuse	aux
34	probably	probably	ADV	_	35 refuse	advmod
35	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 told	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 give	mark
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 refuse	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pestle	det
40	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 mortar	cc
42	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pestle	conj
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 pestle	acl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 jade	case
45	jade	jade	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pei's mother	a wise woman				tree rules
2	does	present	most mothers					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Pei's mother		Pei			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	would	the Genii				angry property	tree rules
5	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	Pei	women's great rivers		brooks		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent river=Theme into brook=Trajectory
6	refuse	would					probably property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not give	to-infinitive		the pestle and mortar	Pei			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pestle=Theme
8	make	participle		the pestle and mortar not said here			of jade	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 93