The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
It was the thought of leaving her kind foster-parents, and the home in which she had been so happy, that made her weep.
Who acts: moon, thought, Princess · What happens: be, leave, make, weep · To what, where: thought, kind foster parents, home, Princess
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 (moon, thought, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 leaving | mark |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 thought | acl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 parents | amod |
| 9 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parents | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 foster | punct |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leaving | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 home | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 home | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 home | det |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 happy | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happy | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 happy | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 happy | advmod |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 home | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | moon | the thought and the home | the home conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the thought and the home not said here | Princess's kind foster parents | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Princess | the home | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past | the thought and the home | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | weep | infinitive | Princess not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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