The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 73

“Now,” he said to himself, “I am certainly much prettier than I was before; why should not this accident prove to be a good thing for me.

Who acts: JACKAL, accident · What happens: say, be, not prove · To what, where: JACKAL, good thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JACKAL, accident), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 prettier	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 prettier	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 prettier	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 prettier	cop
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 prettier	advmod
15	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	parataxis
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 before	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 before	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 before	cop
19	before	before	ADV	_	15 prettier	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 prove	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 prove	advmod
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 prove	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 prove	advmod
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 accident	det
25	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 prove	nsubj
26	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	31 thing	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 thing	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thing	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thing	amod
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 prove	ccomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 thing	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	JACKAL		JACKAL	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	JACKAL				pretty property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	JACKAL				before property	tree rules
4	not prove in a quote	should	this accident					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	this accident not said here	a good thing			for JACKAL	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.

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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 73

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 73