The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 35
Princess Moonlight opened the box and took out the jeweled branch, but she saw at once that it was not what the knight stated it to be.
Who acts: Princess, box, knight · What happens: open, take out, jewel, see, not be, state · To what, where: box, jeweled branch · 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 (Princess, box, knight), 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 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | Moonlight | Moonlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | flat |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 branch | det |
| 10 | jeweled | jewel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 branch | amod |
| 11 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 saw | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 what | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 what | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 what | advmod |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knight | det |
| 24 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stated | nsubj |
| 25 | stated | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stated | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 be | mark |
| 28 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stated | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Princess | the box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | Princess not said here | the jeweled branch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | jewel | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | see | past | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not is a | past | box | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | state speech: other | past | the knight | box | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | to-infinitive | the knight not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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