The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 100
And the seven Princesses grieved greatly, for they feared that their kind husbands had been killed.
Who acts: seven Princesses, Princesses · What happens: grieve, fear, kill · To what, where: kind husbands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven Princesses, Princesses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grieved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princesses | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Princesses | nummod |
| 4 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 grieved | nsubj |
| 5 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 grieved | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feared | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 feared | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feared | nsubj |
| 10 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 killed | mark |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 husbands | amod |
| 14 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 feared | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | the seven Princesses | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | Princesses = princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Princesses's kind husbands | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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