The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
They then went away, after thanking the Princess for her kindness.
Who acts: jewelers · What happens: go away, thank · To what, where: 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanking | punct |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 thanking | mark |
| 7 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thanking | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 kindness | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanking | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | jewelers = jeweler | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | gerund | jewelers = jeweler not said here | the Princess | for Princess's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent princess=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
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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