The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 89
So the seven Princes rode through the wood until they came to the place where the seven Princesses sat crying and wringing their hands.
Who acts: seven Princes, sons, seven Princesses · What happens: ride, come, sit, cry, wring · To what, where: wood, place, hands
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 Princes, sons, seven Princesses), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princes | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Princes | nummod |
| 4 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 sat | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princesses | det |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Princesses | nummod |
| 18 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 sat | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wringing | cc |
| 22 | wringing | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 crying | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wringing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the seven Princes | the wood | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | sons = son | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | the seven Princesses | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the seven Princesses not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wring | gerund | the seven Princesses not said here | sons's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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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