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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

Now, the old man would gladly have seen his lovely foster-daughter married to one of these suitors, and he felt sorry for them, so he said to the Princess:

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: see, marry, feel, say · To what, where: lovely foster daughter, one, Princess · 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 (old man, man), 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

advmodpunctdetamodnsubjauxadvmodauxnmod:possamodcompoundpunctobjaclcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjparataxisxcompcaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTtheDEToldADJmanNOUNwouldAUXgladlyADVhaveAUXseenVERBhisPRONlovelyADJfosterNOUN-PUNCTdaughterNOUNmarriedVERBtoADPoneNUMofADPtheseDETsuitorsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONfeltVERBsorryADJforADPthemPRON,PUNCTsoADVhePRONsaidVERBtoADPtheDETPrincessNOUN:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem9 seenadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 mandet
4oldoldADJDegree=Pos5 manamod
5manmanNOUNNumber=Sing9 seennsubj
6wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin9 seenaux
7gladlygladlyADV_9 seenadvmod
8havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf9 seenaux
9seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 daughternmod:poss
11lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos14 daughteramod
12fosterfosterNOUNNumber=Sing14 daughtercompound
13--PUNCT_12 fosterpunct
14daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing9 seenobj
15marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 daughteracl
16totoADP_17 onecase
17oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 marriedobl
18ofofADP_20 suitorscase
19thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem20 suitorsdet
20suitorssuitorNOUNNumber=Plur17 onenmod
21,,PUNCT_24 feltpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 feltcc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 feltnsubj
24feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 seenparataxis
25sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos24 feltxcomp
26forforADP_27 themcase
27themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 sorryobl
28,,PUNCT_31 saidpunct
29sosoADV_31 saidadvmod
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 saidnsubj
31saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 feltconj
32totoADP_34 Princesscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Princessdet
34PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing31 saidobl
35::PUNCT_9 seenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seewould · perfectthe old manman's lovely foster daughternowgladly propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
2marryparticipleman's lovely foster daughter not said hereone of this suitorsvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Patient
3feelpastmansorry propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4say speech: assertpastmanthe Princessvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient

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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