The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 71
Next day, while the Princesses were eating the cream-cake, along came their stepmother’s daughter.
Who acts: Princesses, daughter · What happens: eat, come · To what, where: cream cake
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, daughter), 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 | 8 eating | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eating | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 eating | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princesses | det |
| 6 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 eating | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eating | aux |
| 8 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cake | det |
| 10 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cake | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 cream | punct |
| 12 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eating | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 came | case |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eating | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 stepmother | case |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | the Princesses | the cream cake | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | Princesses's stepmother's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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