The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 59
As soon as she could, however, she left the Princesses, and went to her mother, and told her all about the pomelo tree.
Who acts: Balna · What happens: leave, go, tell · To what, where: Princesses, Balna · 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), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 left | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 could | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 could | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princesses | det |
| 12 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 tree | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | pomelo | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | compound |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Balna | the Princesses | however, soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Balna not said here | to Balna's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Balna not said here | Balna | the pomelo tree ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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