The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 86
When the seven Princesses awoke and found themselves all alone in the thick jungle, they were frightened, and called out as loud as they could, hoping to make their father hear; but he was too far away by that time.
Who acts: seven Princesses, father, Rajah · What happens: awake, find, frighten, call out, hope, make · To what, where: Princesses, thick jungle, father
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 (seven Princesses, father, Rajah), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princesses | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Princesses | nummod |
| 4 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 alone | advmod |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 found | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 jungle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jungle | det |
| 13 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jungle | amod |
| 14 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frightened | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frightened | aux:pass |
| 18 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 awoke | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 frightened | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 called | compound:prt |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 loud | advmod |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 called | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 could | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 loud | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hoping | punct |
| 29 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 called | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hoping | xcomp |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 make | xcomp |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 away | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 away | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 away | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 away | cop |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 far | advmod |
| 40 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 away | advmod |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 time | case |
| 43 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 time | det |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 away | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the seven Princesses | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the seven Princesses not said here | Princesses = princess | the thick jungle | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | Princesses = princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princesses's father | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | hear not said to happen | infinitive | Princesses's father not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is | past | Rajah | time | away, far 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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