The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 72
Then the Magician asked him to sell it to him if he would not give it, but this the Prince said he would not do.
Who acts: Magician, Prince · What happens: ask, sell, not give, say, not do · To what, where: Prince, 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 (Magician, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Magician | det |
| 3 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sell | mark |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | obl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 give | advmod |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sell | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 the | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 do | advmod |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Magician | Prince | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Magician not said here | parrot | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not give a condition, not said to happen | would | Prince | parrot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not do | would | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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