The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 60
Whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below in the court of the palace is a pedler with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.”
Who acts: countenance, I, court, such beautiful things · What happens: be, not know, not help, feel, have, spare · To what, where: pedler, such beautiful things, little money
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countenance, I, court, such beautiful things), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 anxious | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 3 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anxious | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anxious | cop |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 know | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 anxious | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pedler | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 pedler | cc |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 below | advmod |
| 14 | below | below | ADV | _ | 17 court | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 court | det |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pedler | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 court | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pedler | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pedler | det |
| 23 | pedler | pedler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anxious | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 things | case |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 things | amod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 things | amod |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pedler | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 help | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 help | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 help | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 help | advmod |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 things | acl:relcl |
| 33 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 help | xcomp |
| 34 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feeling | xcomp |
| 35 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 36 having | mark |
| 36 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 feeling | advcl |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 little | advmod |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 money | amod |
| 39 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 having | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 spare | mark |
| 41 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 having | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 help | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | my countenance | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the court of the palace | a pedler | with such beautiful things | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not help | can | I | such beautiful things | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel not said to happen | gerund | such beautiful things not said here | annoyed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | such beautiful things not said here | little money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 7 | spare | to-infinitive | such beautiful things not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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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