The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 78
It made her sad to think that she would not be able to make a return for all the love and kindness they had shown her.
Who acts: purpose, Princess, people · What happens: make, think, not be, show · To what, where: Princess, return, love · 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 (purpose, Princess, people), 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sad | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 think | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 return | det |
| 16 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 love | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 love | det |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kindness | cc |
| 22 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 love | conj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shown | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 shown | aux |
| 25 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 love | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shown | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | purpose | Princess | sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | purpose not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | would | Princess | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | a return | for all love and kindness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent return=Product for love=Asset | |||
| 5 | show | past · perfect | people | all love and kindness not said here | Princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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