The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 78
She replied that only one thing could save her life, but this she knew he would not do.
Who acts: stepmother, one thing, this, thing · What happens: reply, save, know, not do · To what, where: life · 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 (stepmother, one thing, this, thing), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 save | mark |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thing | nummod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 save | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 save | aux |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 save | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | stepmother | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | could | one thing | stepmother's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | this | stepmother nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not do | would | thing | vn act-114-1 «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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