The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 90
At the sight of them the young Princes were very much astonished, and still more so on learning their story.
Who acts: young Princes · What happens: be, learn, sight · To what, where: sight, story, sons
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 (young Princes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 astonished | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princes | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Princes | amod |
| 8 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 astonished | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | advmod |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learning | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 learning | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 learning | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 learning | mark |
| 19 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 astonished | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 story | nmod:poss |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learning | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Princes | the sight of sons | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | gerund | the young Princes not said here | sons's story | still | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | |||
| 3 | sight | sons = son | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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