The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 65
Next day the Princesses went as usual to their mother’s grave, and when they found that the pomelo tree had disappeared, they wept bitterly.
Who acts: Princesses, pomelo tree · What happens: go, find, disappear, weep · To what, where: grave
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 (Princesses, pomelo tree), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princesses | det |
| 4 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 usual | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wept | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 found | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wept | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 disappeared | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | pomelo | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disappeared | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 disappeared | aux |
| 23 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 found | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wept | nsubj |
| 26 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 27 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 26 wept | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Princesses | Princesses's mother's grave | day | as usual | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | find | past | Princesses = princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the pomelo tree | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | weep | past | Princesses = princess | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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