The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 28
This the young Prince did the next day when he took the flowers to the imprisoned Princess.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince · What happens: do, take, imprison · To what, where: flowers, imprisoned Princess
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 (young Prince, Prince), 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 | 4 Prince | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 took | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flowers | det |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 16 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Princess | amod |
| 17 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the young Prince This | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Prince | the flowers | the imprisoned Princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme to princess=Destination | |||
| 3 | imprison | participle | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=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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