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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 77

She told the bamboo-cutter and his wife how very sorry she would be to leave them, and that it was not her wish to leave them.

Who acts: Princess, purpose · What happens: tell, be, leave, not be · To what, where: bamboo cutter, people, wish · 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 (Princess, purpose), 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

nsubjdetcompoundpunctobjccnmod:possnsubjadvmodadvmodconjnsubjauxccompmarkxcompobjpunctccmarknsubjcopadvmodnmod:possparataxismarkaclobjpunctrootShePRONtoldVERBtheDETbambooNOUN-PUNCTcutterNOUNandCCONJhisPRONwifeNOUNhowADVveryADVsorryADJshePRONwouldAUXbeVERBtoPARTleaveVERBthemPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXnotPARTherPRONwishNOUNtoPARTleaveVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 toldnsubj
2toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 cutterdet
4bamboobambooNOUNNumber=Sing6 cuttercompound
5--PUNCT_4 bamboopunct
6cuttercutterNOUNNumber=Sing2 toldobj
7andandCCONJ_12 sorrycc
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 wifenmod:poss
9wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing12 sorrynsubj
10howhowADVPronType=Int12 sorryadvmod
11veryveryADV_12 sorryadvmod
12sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos2 toldconj
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 bensubj
14wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin15 beaux
15bebeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 sorryccomp
16totoPART_17 leavemark
17leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf15 bexcomp
18themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 leaveobj
19,,PUNCT_26 wishpunct
20andandCCONJ_26 wishcc
21thatthatSCONJ_26 wishmark
22ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 wishnsubj
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 wishcop
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 wishadvmod
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 wishnmod:poss
26wishwishNOUNNumber=Sing2 toldparataxis
27totoPART_28 leavemark
28leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf26 wishacl
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 leaveobj
30..PUNCT_2 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastPrincessthe bamboo cuttervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cutter=Recipient
2bewouldPrincesstree rules
3leaveto-infinitivePrincess not said herepeoplevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4not is apastpurposePrincess's wishPrincess nmod:posstree rules
5leaveto-infinitivePrincess not said herepeoplevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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