The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 102
The bamboo child was no ordinary child, for in a very few months she was quite grown-up, and so beautiful was she that the old people treated her like a princess, and allowed no one to see her or wait upon her but themselves.
Who acts: bamboo child, old people · What happens: be, grow up, treat, allow, see, wait · To what, where: ordinary child, bamboo, one
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 (bamboo child, old people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | compound |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 child | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 child | det |
| 6 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 months | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 months | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 few | advmod |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 months | amod |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 child | appos |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grown | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grown | aux:pass |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 grown | advmod |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 months | acl:relcl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 grown | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beautiful | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beautiful | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | acl:relcl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 she | cop |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beautiful | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 treated | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 treated | nsubj |
| 31 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 beautiful | advcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 treated | obj |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 princess | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 princess | det |
| 35 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 treated | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 allowed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 allowed | cc |
| 38 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 treated | conj |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 allowed | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 see | mark |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 one | acl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 see | obj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 wait | cc |
| 45 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 see | conj |
| 46 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 her | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 wait | obl |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 themselves | cc |
| 49 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 allowed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bamboo child | no ordinary child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow up | past · passive | bamboo | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | bamboo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | treat | past | the old people | bamboo | like a princess | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | allow | past | the old people not said here | no one | children = child obl | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | the old people not said here | bamboo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | wait | infinitive | the old people not said here | upon bamboo | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon her=Location |
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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