The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 105
And so they called her Princess Moonlight, because they thought that only a daughter of the Moon God could give forth such a soft, bright light.
Who acts: children, daughter · What happens: call, think, give · To what, where: soft bright light · 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 (children, daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 called | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | Moonlight | Moonlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 daughter | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 God | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 God | det |
| 18 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 God | compound |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 give | advmod |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 light | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 light | det |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 light | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 soft | punct |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 light | amod |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | children = child | presence's Princess xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | children = child | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | could | a daughter of the Moon God | such soft bright light | forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
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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