The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 68
Soon after this the bamboo-cutter and his wife noticed that the Princess would sit on her balcony and gaze ardently at the moon, after which she would burst into tears.
Who acts: bamboo cutter, Princess · What happens: notice, sit, gaze, burst · To what, where: balcony, tears · 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 (bamboo cutter, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 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 | 11 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wife | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cutter | conj |
| 11 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sit | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | aux |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 noticed | ccomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 balcony | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 19 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gaze | cc |
| 21 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sit | conj |
| 22 | ardently | ardently | ADV | _ | 21 gaze | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 moon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moon | det |
| 25 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gaze | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 burst | punct |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 burst | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 burst | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 burst | aux |
| 31 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sit | conj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 tears | case |
| 33 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 burst | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the bamboo cutter and Emperor's wife | soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | would | the Princess | Princess's balcony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location | ||||
| 3 | gaze | infinitive | the Princess not said here | at the moon; ardently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst | would | Princess | tears | which obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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