--- title: When the seven Princesses awoke and found themselves all alone in th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: When the seven Princesses awoke and found themselves all alone in the thick jungle, they were frightened, and called out as loud as they could, hoping to make their father hear; but he was too far away by that time. Who acts: seven Princesses, father, Rajah. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven Princesses, father, Rajah), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:3:87 # text = When the seven Princesses awoke and found themselves all alone in the thick jungle, they were frightened, and called out as loud as they could, hoping to make their father hear; but he was too far away by that time. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 Princesses Princess PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 all all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 too too ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 44 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | the seven Princesses | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | the seven Princesses *not said here* | Princesses *= princess* | | the thick jungle | | alone *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | | 3 | **frighten** | past · passive | | Princesses *= princess* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | loud *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hope** | gerund | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | Princesses's father | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Princesses's father *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** | past | Rajah | | | | time | away, far *property* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/)