The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 11
This time they asked the old man to tell them if the Princess was determined to never see any men.
Who acts: knights, Princess · What happens: ask, tell, be, not see · To what, where: old man, knights, men · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (knights, Princess), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 determined | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 determined | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 determined | cop |
| 15 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | knights = knight | the old man | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | knights = knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the Princess | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | any men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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