The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 106
The Magician thought her more beautiful than all the other beautiful things he had seen, and he asked her to go home with him and to marry him.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: think, see, ask, go, marry · To what, where: Balna, other beautiful things, Magician
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beautiful | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | xcomp |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 marry | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 marry | mark |
| 28 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 marry | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Magician | Balna | beautiful property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Magician | all other beautiful things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Magician | Balna | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Magician not said here | with Magician; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | Magician not said here | Magician | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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