The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 1
Of course, the fame of so lovely a Princess spread far and wide, and many were the suitors who sought to win her hand.
Who acts: Princess, many suitors · What happens: spread, be, seek, win · To what, where: many suitors, hand
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, many suitors), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fame | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fame | det |
| 5 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lovely | case |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 lovely | advmod |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fame | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | nsubj |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 spread | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wide | cc |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 far | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suitors | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 suitors | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 suitors | amod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suitors | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 suitors | det |
| 20 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spread | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sought | nsubj |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suitors | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 win | mark |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sought | xcomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | a Princess | of the fame of lovely; far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the many suitors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seek | past | the many suitors | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | the many suitors not said here | Princess's hand | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/1/