The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 24
She told him she was the Malee’s daughter, and the Magician said, “You are a very pretty little girl, and to-morrow you shall take a present of flowers from me to the beautiful lady who lives in the tower.”
Who acts: girl, Magician, beautiful lady · What happens: tell, be, say, take, live · To what, where: Magician, daughter, pretty little girl, present, morrow, tower · 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 (girl, Magician, beautiful lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 daughter | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Malee | det |
| 7 | Malee | Malee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Malee | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Magician | det |
| 13 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 girl | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 girl | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 pretty | advmod |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 take | cc |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 morrow | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 take | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 take | aux |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 present | det |
| 33 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 flowers | case |
| 35 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 present | nmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 take | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 lady | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lady | det |
| 40 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 lady | amod |
| 41 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obl |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 lives | nsubj |
| 43 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 lady | acl:relcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 tower | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tower | det |
| 46 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lives | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | Magician | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | girl | the Malee's daughter | the Malee nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Magician | a pretty little girl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | shall | Magician | a present of flowers | morrow | from girl; to the beautiful lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent present=Theme to morrow=Destination from i=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | live in a quote | present | the beautiful lady | the tower | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=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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