The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 59
Guido accordingly took it to the palace, and his Majesty was so struck by its beauty that he wished to purchase it.
Who acts: Guido, beauty · What happens: take, strike, wish, purchase · To what, where: stone, palace, Majesty
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, beauty), 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 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 struck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 struck | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | aux:pass |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 struck | advmod |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 beauty | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wished | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 purchase | mark |
| 22 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 purchase | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Guido | stone | the palace | accordingly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | stone's beauty | Guido's Majesty | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | Guido | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | purchase not said to happen | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | stone | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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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