The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 69
They asked her the reason for this, and she told them that she did not belong to this world, but came from the moon.
Who acts: tears, Princess · What happens: ask, tell, not belong, come · To what, where: reason, Princess, tears, moon · 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 (tears, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reason | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 belong | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 belong | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 belong | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 belong | advmod |
| 17 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belong | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 moon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | tears = tear | the reason | Princess | for this | tree rules | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess | tears = tear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not belong | past · do-support | Princess | to this world | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | tears = tear not said here | the moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=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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