The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 31
The Princess received the package, and unwrapped it, but saw at once that it was a sham, and not the bowl of Buddha, because it did not shine as the true one would have done.
Who acts: Princess, package, bowl, true one · What happens: receive, unwrap, see, be, not shine, do · To what, where: package, sham
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, package, bowl, true one), 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 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 package | det |
| 5 | package | package | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unwrapped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 unwrapped | cc |
| 8 | unwrapped | unwrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 unwrapped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unwrapped | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 saw | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 sham | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sham | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sham | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sham | det |
| 19 | sham | sham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bowl | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bowl | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 bowl | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bowl | det |
| 24 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sham | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Buddha | case |
| 26 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bowl | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shine | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 shine | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shine | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 shine | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 shine | advmod |
| 32 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | parataxis |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 done | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 35 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 one | amod |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 done | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 done | aux |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 done | aux |
| 39 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 shine | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Princess | the package | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent package=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unwrap | past | package | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | package | a sham | the bowl of Buddha appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not shine | past · do-support | bowl | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | do | would · perfect | the true one | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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