The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
The Princess told the bamboo-cutter that she would vanish from the earth rather than go to the palace.
Who acts: Princess, bamboo cutter · What happens: tell, vanish, go · To what, where: bamboo cutter, earth, palace · 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, bamboo cutter), 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 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cutter | det |
| 5 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cutter | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bamboo | punct |
| 7 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 vanish | nsubj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 vanish | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 vanish | aux |
| 11 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cutter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vanish | obl |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 go | cc |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 rather | fixed |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 vanish | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Princess | the bamboo cutter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cutter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | vanish | would | the bamboo cutter | the earth | Princess nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the bamboo cutter not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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