The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 51
The princess had almost won when Abibas threw at her feet the bag containing the gilded ball.
Who acts: princess, Abibas, bag · What happens: win, throw, contain, gild · To what, where: bag, feet, gilded ball
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 (princess, Abibas, bag), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | aux |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 won | advmod |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 threw | advmod |
| 7 | Abibas | Abibas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 14 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 bag | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 16 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ball | amod |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 containing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · perfect | the princess | almost property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Abibas | the bag | Abibas's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bag=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | contain | gerund | the bag not said here | the gilded ball | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ball=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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