The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 100

With this in his hand he went to the center of the ring, and asked each child in turn, “What would you like to have out of the bag?”

Who acts: Musai, child · What happens: go, ask, like, have out · To what, where: center, child, turn, bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, child), 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	With	with	ADP	_	5 hand	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hand	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 center	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 center	det
10	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ring	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 center	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 turn	case
20	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 like	obj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 have	mark
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 bag	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bag	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bag	det
32	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Musai			the center of the ring	with Musai's hand this	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to center=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Musai not said here		each child	turn		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	would	each child = child				What obj	tree rules
4	have out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	each child = child not said here	the bag				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 100