The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
Very soon the widow came to the door, and begged for a few sticks from the fire with which to cook her own dinner.
Who acts: widow · What happens: come, beg, cook · To what, where: door, own dinner
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 (widow), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 widow | det |
| 4 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sticks | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sticks | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sticks | amod |
| 15 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 begged | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sticks | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 cook | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cook | mark |
| 22 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fire | acl:relcl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dinner | amod |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cook | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the widow | the door | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | the widow not said here | for a few sticks from the fire | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for stick=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | woman's own dinner | with the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient with which=Instrument |
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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