The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 30
But this man was wiser than the others, for he took the three following precautions: First, he framed a curious garland of roses, of which he discovered the princess was very fond.
Who acts: man, princess · What happens: be, take, follow, frame, discover · To what, where: three following precautions, curious garland
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wiser | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiser | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wiser | cop |
| 5 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 others | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wiser | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 took | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wiser | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 precautions | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 precautions | nummod |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 precautions | amod |
| 16 | precautions | precaution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 precautions | punct |
| 18 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 took | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 framed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 framed | nsubj |
| 21 | framed | frame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 garland | det |
| 23 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 garland | amod |
| 24 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 framed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 roses | case |
| 26 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 garland | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 discovered | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 discovered | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 discovered | nsubj |
| 31 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 framed | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 princess | det |
| 33 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fond | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fond | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 fond | advmod |
| 36 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 discovered | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this man | than the others; wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | man | the three following precautions | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | frame | past | man | a curious garland of roses | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent garland=Destination | ||||
| 5 | discover | past | man | which obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the princess | fond property | tree rules |
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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