The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 21
This she agreed to do, and advised him to disguise himself, lest the Magician should see him and turn him into stone.
Who acts: This, Prince, Magician · What happens: agree, do, advise, disguise, see, turn · To what, where: Prince, stone
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, Prince, Magician), 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 | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 advised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 advised | cc |
| 8 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 advised | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 disguise | mark |
| 11 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 advised | xcomp |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 disguise | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Magician | det |
| 16 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 disguise | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turn | cc |
| 21 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turn | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 stone | case |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | This | wife nsubj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | This not said here | Prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | disguise not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination | ||||
| 5 | see | should | the Magician | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | turn | present | the Magician not said here | Prince | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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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