The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 73
The news soon reached the Emperor, who at once made plans to keep the Princess Moonlight on earth.
Who acts: news · What happens: reach, make, keep · To what, where: Emperor, Princess Moonlight, earth
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 (news), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plans | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 plans | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 plans | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 plans | amod |
| 12 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Emperor | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Moonlight | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Moonlight | compound |
| 17 | Moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the news | the Emperor and made plans the Emperor and made plans the Emperor | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | participle | once property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the news not said here | the Princess Moonlight | earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent moonlight=Theme on earth=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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