The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
Let us sit around the edge of the tank and not allow her to see it, for if we give her some of the cake she will go and tell her mother, and that will be very unfortunate for us.”
Who acts: you, us, we, some, that · What happens: let, sit, not allow, see, give, go · To what, where: us, edge, stepmother, tank, mother · 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 (you, us, we, some), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tank | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tank | det |
| 9 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 allow | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 allow | advmod |
| 12 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sit | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 allow | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allow | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | nsubj |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 go | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cake | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cake | det |
| 26 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 some | nmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 give | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tell | cc |
| 31 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tell | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 unfortunate | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 unfortunate | cc |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 unfortunate | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 unfortunate | cop |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 unfortunate | advmod |
| 40 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sit | parataxis |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 us | case |
| 42 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 unfortunate | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | us not said here | the edge of the tank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around edge=Location | ||||
| 3 | not allow | infinitive | us not said here | stepmother | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | us not said here | tank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | we | stepmother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | future | some of the cake | stepmother nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | some of the cake not said here | stepmother's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | is | future | that | for us; unfortunate property | tree rules |
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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