The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
About this time the Prime Minister died, leaving a widow and one daughter, and every day, when the Princesses were getting the Rajah’s dinner ready, the widow and her daughter would come and beg for some fire from the hearth.
Who acts: Prime Minister, Princesses, daughter · What happens: die, leave, get, come, beg · To what, where: widow, dinner, hearth
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 (Prime Minister, Princesses, daughter), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minister | det |
| 5 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 6 Minister | compound |
| 6 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaving | punct |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 died | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 widow | det |
| 11 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughter | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 daughter | nummod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 widow | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 day | cc |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 getting | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 getting | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princesses | det |
| 22 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 getting | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 getting | aux |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 day | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Rajah | det |
| 26 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Rajah | case |
| 28 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obj |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 getting | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 widow | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 widow | det |
| 32 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ready | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 come | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ready | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 beg | cc |
| 39 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 come | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 fire | case |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 fire | det |
| 42 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 beg | obl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 hearth | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hearth | det |
| 45 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 beg | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the Prime Minister | day; time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the Prime Minister not said here | a widow and one daughter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | the Princesses | the Rajah's dinner | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | would | wife's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | beg speech: request | infinitive | wife's daughter not said here | the hearth | for some fire | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for fire=Topic |
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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