The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 34
It happened that the maiden herself was standing at a window close by and heard Abibas express his wish to run against her.
Who acts: It, princess, Abibas, man · What happens: happen, stand, hear, express, run, wish · To what, where: close, window, wish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, princess, Abibas, man), 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 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 maiden | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happened | xcomp |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 standing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 standing | aux |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 standing | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 close | fixed |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 16 | Abibas | Abibas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 express | nsubj |
| 17 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heard | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wish | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 express | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 express | advcl |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 run | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | maiden property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | princess | close | a window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 3 | hear | past | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | express | infinitive | Abibas | man's wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | Abibas not said here | against princess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | wish | man | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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