The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 43
This caused her to cry out in anger: “Never shall the daughter of a king be wed to such a clown as you.”
Who acts: This · What happens: cause, cry out, w · To what, where: Abibas, anger, daughter · 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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | 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 caused | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cry | mark |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 caused | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cry | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 anger | case |
| 8 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 wed | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wed | punct |
| 11 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 shall | advmod |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wed | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wed | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wed | aux:pass |
| 19 | wed | w | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 caused | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 clown | case |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 clown | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 clown | det |
| 23 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wed | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 clown | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wed | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | This | Abibas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | This not said here | anger | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | ||||
| 3 | w in a quote | shall · passive | the daughter of a king | to such clown as you | 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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