The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
He told her all that had happened, and the great reward he was to receive, and then his wife’s countenance brightened.
Who acts: Guido, that, great reward, countenance · What happens: tell, happen, be, brighten · To what, where: wife · 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 (Guido, that, great reward, countenance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | 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 told | iobj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 happened | det:predet |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 receive | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 receive | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reward | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reward | amod |
| 12 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receive | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 receive | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 receive | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 receive | mark |
| 16 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happened | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brightened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brightened | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 countenance | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 23 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brightened | nsubj |
| 24 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Guido | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the great reward | Guido nsubj; receive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | brighten | participle | Guido's wife's countenance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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