The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 104
Then the stupid servants let him walk through the palace; they did not know that he was no Fakir, but a wicked Magician named Punchkin.
Who acts: stupid servants, husband, servants, wicked Magician · What happens: let, walk, not know, be, name · To what, where: husband, palace, Fakir · 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 (stupid servants, husband, servants, wicked Magician), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 servants | amod |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 Fakir | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Fakir | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Fakir | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 Fakir | det |
| 20 | Fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 named | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 named | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Magician | det |
| 24 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Magician | amod |
| 25 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 named | nsubj |
| 26 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Fakir | parataxis |
| 27 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 named | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the stupid servants | husband | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | husband not said here | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | servants = servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | husband | no Fakir | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | participle | a wicked Magician | Punchkin xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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