The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 65
Just as the pedler was about to close his box, the Caliph noticed a small drawer, and asked if there was anything else in it for sale.
Who acts: pedler, Caliph, anything · What happens: be, close, notice, ask · To what, where: box, small drawer
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 (pedler, Caliph, anything), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pedler | det |
| 4 | pedler | pedler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 close | mark |
| 8 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 about | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 box | nmod:poss |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 noticed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Caliph | det |
| 13 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drawer | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drawer | amod |
| 17 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 noticed | conj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 was | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 was | nsubj |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 anything | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 anything | nmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sale | case |
| 29 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 anything | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pedler | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close | to-infinitive | the pedler not said here | slave's box | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | the Caliph | a small drawer | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drawer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Caliph not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | anything in pedler for sale | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/65/