The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 44
The Princess took the package from the old man, and said she would test the skin by putting it in the fire before consenting to see the knight.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: take, say, test, put, consent, see · To what, where: package, skin, fire, knight · 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), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | 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 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 test | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 test | aux |
| 15 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skin | det |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 test | obj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 putting | mark |
| 19 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 test | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 putting | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 putting | obl |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 consenting | mark |
| 25 | consenting | consent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 putting | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 consenting | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 knight | det |
| 29 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Princess | the package | from the old man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent package=Theme from man=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | test | would | Princess | the skin | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | gerund | Princess not said here | skin | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination | |||
| 5 | consent | gerund | Princess not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the knight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus |
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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