The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 24
The fourth knight was to find the dragon whose right eye was a many-colored stone, and to bring the eye to her.
Who acts: fourth knight, right eye · What happens: be, color, bring · To what, where: colored stone, eye, Princess
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 (fourth knight, right eye), 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 | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 eye | nmod:poss |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eye | amod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stone | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stone | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 colored | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 many | punct |
| 16 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stone | amod |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eye | det |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fourth knight | the dragon obj; find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a colored stone's right eye | a colored stone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | the fourth knight not said here | the eye | Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to she=Destination |
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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