The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 23
One day, not long after this, as the Magician was walking in his garden he saw a little girl (as he thought) playing about, and asked her who she was.
Who acts: Magician, girl · What happens: walk, see, think, play about, ask, be · To what, where: garden, little girl, girl · 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 (Magician, girl), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 day | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 long | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 walking | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Magician | det |
| 11 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walking | aux |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | advcl |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 27 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 thought | xcomp |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 playing | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asked | cc |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | iobj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 asked | ccomp |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 who | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 who | cop |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the Magician | Magician's garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Magician | a little girl | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Magician | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play about | gerund | Magician not said here | about property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Magician not said here | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | girl | tree rules |
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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