The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 2
The Geni was much impressed by the wonderful things Pei-Hang seemed able to do.
Who acts: wonderful things, Pei · What happens: impress, seem, do · To what, where: Geni, wonderful things
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful things, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Geni | det |
| 2 | Geni | Geni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 impressed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 impressed | advmod |
| 5 | impressed | impress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 things | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 impressed | obl |
| 10 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Pei | punct |
| 12 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pei | flat |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 impressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impress | past · passive | the wonderful things | the Geni | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | Pei | the wonderful things not said here | able property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Pei not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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