The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
The stepmother was astonished that the seven girls should eat nothing and yet be well, so she told her daughter to watch them.
Who acts: stepmother, seven girls · What happens: be, eat, tell, watch · To what, where: nothing, daughter, daughters · 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 (stepmother, seven girls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girls | det |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 girls | nummod |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 astonished | ccomp |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 well | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 well | cop |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 eat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 told | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 watch | mark |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 told | xcomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 watch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmother | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | should | the seven girls | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | the seven girls not said here | yet | well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | stepmother | stepmother's daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | stepmother not said here | daughters = daughter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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