The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 1
This made the Magician very angry, so he turned her into a little black dog, and led her away, saying, “Since you will not come with me of your own free will, I will make you.”
Who acts: This, he, you, I · What happens: make, turn, lead away, say, not come · To what, where: Magician, her, dog, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, he, you, I), 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 Magician | det |
| 4 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Magician | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 dog | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dog | amod |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dog | amod |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 led | cc |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 led | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 led | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 26 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 come | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 come | advmod |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 come | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 will | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 will | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 free | amod |
| 36 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 will | amod |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 make | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 make | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 make | aux |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 make | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 make | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | the Magician | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | he | her = she | into a little black dog result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into dog=Result | |||
| 3 | lead away | past | This not said here | dog | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | This not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not come in a quote | future | you | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make in a quote | future | I | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |
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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