The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
The Princess replied that she could not love her own father any more than she loved him, and that her greatest wish was to please him.
Who acts: Princess, greatest wish · What happens: reply, not love, love, be, wish · To what, where: own father, satisfaction
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, greatest wish), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 love | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 love | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 love | advmod |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | obj |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 love | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 loved | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 please | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 please | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 please | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wish | nmod:poss |
| 22 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 wish | amod |
| 23 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 please | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 please | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 please | mark |
| 26 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 please | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not love | could | Princess | Princess's own father | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | past | Princess | satisfaction | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Princess's greatest wish | satisfaction obj; please property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | Princess | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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