The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
The Emperor went straight to the apartment of the Princess, and never had he even imagined such wondrous beauty as he saw when his eyes beheld the Moon Daughter.
Who acts: Emperor, eyes · What happens: go, not have, imagine, see, behold · To what, where: apartment, such wondrous beauty, Moon Daughter
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 (Emperor, eyes), 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 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 apartment | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 apartment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apartment | det |
| 7 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 apartment | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 had | advmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 imagined | nsubj |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 imagined | advmod |
| 17 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | ccomp |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beauty | amod |
| 19 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beauty | amod |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imagined | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 saw | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 imagined | advcl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 beheld | advmod |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 beheld | nsubj |
| 27 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Daughter | det |
| 29 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Daughter | compound |
| 30 | Daughter | Daughter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 beheld | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Emperor | the apartment of the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not have | past | the Emperor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | imagine | past | Emperor | such wondrous beauty | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beauty=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Emperor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | behold | past | Emperor's eyes | the Moon Daughter | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=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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