The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 66
This filled him with fear, and he promised to leave her free if she would resume her former shape, to which she then returned.
Who acts: This, Emperor, love · What happens: fill, promise, leave, resume, return · To what, where: Emperor, free, former shape
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 (This, Emperor, love), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leave | mark |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 free | nmod:poss |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leave | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 resume | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 resume | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 resume | aux |
| 17 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shape | nmod:poss |
| 19 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shape | amod |
| 20 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resume | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 returned | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 returned | advmod |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 promised | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | This | Emperor | with fear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with fear=Instrument | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Emperor | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | love's free | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent free=Theme | ||||
| 4 | resume a condition, not said to happen | would | love | love's former shape | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | return | past | love | then | which obl | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to which=Result |
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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