The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 26

Now it happened that when Balna was married her husband had given her a small gold ring on which her name was engraved, and she had put it on her little son’s finger when he was a baby, and later on it was enlarged, so that he was still able to wear it.

Who acts: it, wife, Balna · What happens: happen, marry, give, engrave, put, be · To what, where: Balna, husband, name, small gold ring, finger, baby

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 (it, wife, Balna), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 married	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 married	advmod
6	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 married	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 married	aux:pass
8	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 given	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ring	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ring	amod
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ring	compound
17	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 engraved	obl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 name	nmod:poss
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 engraved	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 engraved	aux:pass
23	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ring	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 given	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	35 finger	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 son	nmod:poss
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 son	amod
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 finger	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 son	case
35	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 baby	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 baby	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 baby	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 baby	det
40	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 enlarged	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 enlarged	cc
43	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 enlarged	advmod
44	on	on	SCONJ	_	47 enlarged	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 enlarged	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 enlarged	aux:pass
47	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 given	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 able	punct
49	so	so	ADV	_	54 able	advmod
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 able	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 able	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 able	cop
53	still	still	ADV	_	54 able	advmod
54	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 given	advcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 wear	mark
56	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 able	xcomp
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 wear	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	past · passive		Balna				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	give	past · perfect · passive		wife's husband			wife obj; a small gold ring obj	tree rules
4	engrave	past · passive		wife's name	a small gold ring			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
5	put	past · perfect	wife	name	wife's little son's finger			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination
6	is a	past	Balna	a baby				tree rules
7	enlarge	past · passive		name			late property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
8	is	past	Balna			still	able property	tree rules
9	wear	to-infinitive	Balna not said here	name				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	name		wife					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 26