The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 65
But she refused, and said that if he attempted to force her to go to the Palace, she would turn into a shadow, and this she did, even as he looked at her.
Who acts: love, Emperor, this · What happens: refuse, say, attempt, force, go, turn · To what, where: love, Palace, shadow · 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 (love, Emperor, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 refused | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 turn | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 attempted | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 attempted | nsubj |
| 10 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 turn | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 force | mark |
| 12 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 attempted | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 force | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 force | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Palace | det |
| 18 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 attempted | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 turn | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 turn | aux |
| 22 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 shadow | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shadow | det |
| 25 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turn | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 did | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 did | cc |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 did | nsubj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 looked | punct |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 looked | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 looked | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 looked | nsubj |
| 35 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 looked | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | love | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | love not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attempt a condition, not said to happen | past | Emperor | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | force not said to happen | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | love | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | love not said here | the Palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | turn | would | love | a shadow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into shadow=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | do | past | this | love nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | look | past | Emperor | at love | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
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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