The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 35
He loved them all very much, and hadn’t the heart to reprove them, even though his meals were spoiled for several days.
Who acts: One, heart · What happens: love, have, reprove, spoil · To what, where: daughters, heart, meals
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 (One, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 loved | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | parataxis |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 heart | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reprove | mark |
| 14 | reprove | reprove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reprove | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoiled | punct |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 spoiled | advmod |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoiled | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 meals | nmod:poss |
| 20 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 22 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 reprove | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 24 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 days | amod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spoiled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | One | daughters = daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reprove | to-infinitive | the heart not said here | daughters = daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spoil | past · passive | One's meals | day | tree rules |
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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