The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 60
She said she had eaten some, and they were the nicest she had ever tasted.
Who acts: Balna, Princesses, nicest · What happens: say, eat, be, taste · To what, where: some · 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, Princesses, nicest), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 eaten | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tasted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tasted | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nicest | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nicest | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nicest | det |
| 12 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tasted | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 tasted | advmod |
| 16 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 eaten | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Balna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | Balna | some | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Princesses = princess | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | taste | past · perfect | the nicest | ever | Balna nsubj | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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