The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

Balna was angry with her, as usual, and said: “Why don’t you keep fuel in your own house, instead of coming here every day and taking ours?

Who acts: Balna, you · What happens: be, say, not keep, come, take · To what, where: fuel, own house, ours · 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 (Balna, you), 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	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 usual	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 usual	case
8	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 angry	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 keep	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 keep	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
18	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 house	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 house	amod
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 coming	punct
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 coming	mark
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 keep	advcl
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 coming	advmod
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coming	obl:unmarked
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 taking	cc
32	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 coming	conj
33	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 taking	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Balna				with woman; angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not keep in a quote	present · do-support	you	fuel	your own house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme in house=Location
4	come in a quote	gerund	you not said here		here	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take in a quote	gerund	you not said here	ours				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent our=Theme

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 39