The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 71
The Prince answered, “This parrot is a great pet of mine, and I cannot give it away.”
Who acts: Prince, parrot · What happens: answer, be, not give away · To what, where: great pet, parrot · 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 (Prince, parrot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pet | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pet | punct |
| 6 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 parrot | det |
| 7 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pet | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pet | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pet | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pet | amod |
| 11 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mine | case |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pet | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 give | advmod |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 give | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this parrot | a great pet | of the Prince = prince | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not give away in a quote | can | the Prince = prince | parrot | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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