The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 41
She was charmed by their fragrance, and paused to admire them.
Who acts: fragrance · What happens: charm, pause, admire · To what, where: Abibas, roses
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 (fragrance), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 charmed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charmed | aux:pass |
| 3 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fragrance | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fragrance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charmed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 paused | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 paused | cc |
| 9 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charmed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 admire | mark |
| 11 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 paused | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 admire | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · passive | roses's fragrance | Abibas | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pause | past | roses's fragrance not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | admire | to-infinitive | roses's fragrance not said here | roses = rose | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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