The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 66
Away flew the eaglets, and when they had reached their home in the tree the Prince said to the old eagles, “Here are your little ones, who have done me good service.
Who acts: eaglets, Prince, little ones · What happens: fly, reach, say, be, do · To what, where: eaglets, home, tree, old eagles, little ones, good service · 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 (eaglets, Prince, little ones), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eaglets | det |
| 4 | eaglets | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | aux |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 flew | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tree | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 eagles | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eagles | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eagles | amod |
| 22 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Here | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Here | punct |
| 25 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 ones | advmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ones | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ones | nmod:poss |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 29 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eagles | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 done | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 done | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 ones | acl:relcl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 done | iobj |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 service | amod |
| 36 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the eaglets | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eaglet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | eaglets = eaglet | eaglets's home | the tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | the tree not said here | the old eagles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Topic to eagle=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | your little ones | here | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | your little ones | good service | the Prince = prince | 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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