The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 43
This skin the third knight took to the bamboo-cutter, saying that he would wait outside the gate for the Princess’s answer.
Who acts: skin, old, Princess · What happens: take, say, wait, answer · To what, where: gate · 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 (skin, old, Princess), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 skin | det |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knight | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 knight | amod |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cutter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cutter | det |
| 9 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cutter | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bamboo | punct |
| 11 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wait | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wait | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wait | aux |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 20 gate | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gate | det |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wait | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 answer | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 answer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Princess | case |
| 25 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wait | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this skin | to the bamboo cutter result; the third knight nsubj | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cutter=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | this skin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wait | would | old | the gate | for the Princess's answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside gate=Location | |||
| 4 | answer | the Princess | nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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