The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
This made the Ranee more angry than before, and she sent her servants to pull down the tomb and fill the little tank with the ruins.
Who acts: This, Ranee · What happens: make, send, pull down, fill · To what, where: servants, tomb, little tank
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, Ranee), 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 | 4 Ranee | det |
| 4 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | ccomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 angry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 servants | nmod:poss |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pull | mark |
| 16 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 pull | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tomb | det |
| 19 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pull | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fill | cc |
| 21 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tank | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tank | amod |
| 24 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fill | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 ruins | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ruins | det |
| 27 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fill | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | send | past | Ranee | stepmother's servants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull down | to-infinitive | Ranee not said here | the tomb | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | This not said here | the little tank | with the ruins | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tank=Patient with ruin=Instrument |
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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