The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 62

Now at the court were three royal children, each of them richly endowed with virtue and talent, and they grew up to be handsome and amiable young men, well-liked by every one.

Who acts: each, virtue · What happens: be, endow, grow up, like · To what, where: three royal children

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 (each, virtue), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 children	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 court	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 court	det
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	obl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 children	cop
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 children	nummod
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 endowed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 children	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 endowed	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 each	nmod
13	richly	richly	ADV	_	14 endowed	advmod
14	endowed	endow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 virtue	case
16	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 endowed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talent	cc
18	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 virtue	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grew	nsubj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 endowed	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 grew	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	26 handsome	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 handsome	cop
26	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grew	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 men	cc
28	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 handsome	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 liked	punct
32	well	well	INTJ	_	34 liked	discourse
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 well	punct
34	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 grew	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 one	case
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 liked	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 endowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		three royal children	now		tree rules
2	endow	past	each of children			with virtue and talent; richly property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with virtue=Theme
3	grow up	past	virtue				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	virtue not said here			amiable young men conj; handsome property	tree rules
5	like	participle	virtue not said here			by every one	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 26, sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 62