The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 36
And even as she was looking at it, the old man was summoned to the door by the twelve jewelers who had designed and made the beautiful thing, but who had not been paid for their work.
Who acts: Princess, twelve jewelers, jewelers · What happens: look, summon, design, make, not pay, work · To what, where: old man, twelve jewelers, beautiful thing
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, twelve jewelers, jewelers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looking | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 looking | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 summoned | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summoned | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 summoned | aux:pass |
| 14 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 looking | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summoned | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 jewelers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jewelers | det |
| 20 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 jewelers | nummod |
| 21 | jewelers | jeweler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 summoned | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 designed | aux |
| 24 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 jewelers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 summoned | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thing | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thing | amod |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 paid | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 paid | cc |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 paid | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 paid | advmod |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 paid | aux:pass |
| 36 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 made | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 work | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 work | nmod:poss |
| 39 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 paid | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | Princess | at box | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | summon | past · passive | the twelve jewelers | the old man | to the door | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | design | past · perfect · passive | the twelve jewelers | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the twelve jewelers not said here | the beautiful thing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | ||||
| 5 | not pay | past · perfect · passive | for jewelers's work; who nsubj:pass | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for work=Theme | |||||
| 6 | work | jewelers = jeweler | nom work «act 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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