The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
But instead of following her advice the other sisters gave the girl some of the cake, and she went straight home and told her mother all about it.
Who acts: other sisters, some, stepmother · What happens: follow, give, girl, go, tell · To what, where: 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 (other sisters, some, stepmother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 following | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 following | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 advice | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sisters | amod |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | iobj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 girl | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cake | det |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 home | advmod |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 told | cc |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 told | iobj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 it | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | the other sisters | follow stepmother's advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | girl | some of the cake | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | stepmother | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | stepmother not said here | stepmother's mother | about cake | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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