The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 48

This was very hard for the seven poor Princesses, who had always been used to the best of everything, and each day they would sit by their dead mother’s tomb, and say:

Who acts: This, Princesses · What happens: be, use, sit, say · To what, where: seven poor Princesses · 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 (This, Princesses), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hard	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 Princesses	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princesses	det
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Princesses	nummod
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Princesses	amod
9	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 used	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 used	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 used	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 used	aux:pass
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Princesses	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 best	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 best	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 used	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 everything	case
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 best	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sit	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sit	cc
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sit	obl:unmarked
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sit	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sit	aux
27	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	33 tomb	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mother	amod
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tomb	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 mother	case
33	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sit	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 say	cc
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sit	conj
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			for the seven poor Princesses; hard property	tree rules
2	use	past · perfect · passive		the seven poor Princesses		always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sit	would	Princesses = princess		day	by Princesses's dead mother's tomb	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tomb=Location
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	Princesses = princess not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 48