The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 74

And now his last hope fled, for as Chang handed the carp to the cook, Sin said as distinctly as he could, “Cook, I am no fish, but Mr. Sin.

Who acts: last hope, Chang, Sin · What happens: flee, hand, say, be, hope · To what, where: Sin, carp, cook, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last hope, Chang, Sin), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 fled	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fled	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hope	nmod:poss
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hope	amod
5	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	nsubj
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 handed	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 handed	mark
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 handed	mark
10	Chang	Chang	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 handed	nsubj
11	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fled	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 carp	det
13	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handed	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 cook	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cook	det
16	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	Sin	Sin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 handed	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 distinctly	advmod
21	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 could	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 distinctly	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Cook	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Cook	punct
27	Cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fish	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 fish	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fish	cop
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 fish	det
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Sin	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 Sin	cc
35	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Sin	nmod:desc
36	Sin	Sin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fled	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	Sin's last hope	Sin Mr.		now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hand	past	Chang	the carp	the cook			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carp=Theme to cook=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Sin	Cook			distinctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	Sin	no fish				tree rules
5	hope		Sin					nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/74/

🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 74