The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 18
Still, she did not feel that she could see the five knights, even though assured that they were worthy, but would make one more trial of their love, and if they were successful in this, then would she grant their request.
Who acts: Princess, knights · What happens: not feel, see, assure, be, make, grant · To what, where: five knights, one more trial, this, request, love
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, knights), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 feel | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 feel | advmod |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 feel | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knights | det |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 knights | nummod |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 assured | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 assured | advmod |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 assured | mark |
| 17 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 feel | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 worthy | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 worthy | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 worthy | cop |
| 21 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 assured | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | aux |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 feel | parataxis |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 trial | nummod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 trial | amod |
| 28 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 love | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 love | nmod:poss |
| 31 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trial | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 grant | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 grant | cc |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 successful | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 successful | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 successful | cop |
| 37 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 grant | advcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 this | case |
| 39 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 successful | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 successful | punct |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 grant | advmod |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 grant | aux |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 grant | nsubj |
| 44 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | conj |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 request | nmod:poss |
| 46 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grant | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | Princess | still | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Princess | the five knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | assure | participle | Princess not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | is | past | knights = knight | worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | would | one more trial of knights's love | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product | |||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | knights = knight | this | successful property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | grant | would | Princess | knights's request | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 8 | try | knights's love | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | love | knights = knight | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | request | knights = knight | nom request «communication transitive»: 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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