The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 2
So the poor Princess was dragged away, unable to escape or to let her sisters know what had become of her.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: drag away, escape, let, know, become · To what, where: poor Princess, Princess · 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 (sisters), 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 | _ | 6 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dragged | aux:pass |
| 6 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 dragged | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 unable | punct |
| 9 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dragged | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 escape | mark |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unable | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 escape | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 become | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 become | aux |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 become | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag away | past · passive | the poor Princess | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | present | sisters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | become | past · perfect | of Princess; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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