The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 61

This made the cruel Ranee very angry, and the next day she told the Rajah that she had a very bad headache, and would have to stay in bed.

Who acts: This, Balna · What happens: make, tell, have, stay · To what, where: cruel Ranee, Rajah, bad headache, bed · 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, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ranee	det
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ranee	amod
5	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl:unmarked
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rajah	det
16	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 headache	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 bad	advmod
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 headache	amod
23	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stay	mark
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 bed	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	This	the cruel Ranee				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ranee=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	Balna		the Rajah		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rajah=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	Balna	a bad headache					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient
4	have	would	Balna not said here						tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive	Balna not said here			bed			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

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 61

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 61