The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 87
“As soon as they look up I can ask them if I may chop down a tree,” he said to himself.
Who acts: eyes, Wang · What happens: look up, ask, chop down, say · To what, where: eyes, tree, Wang · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Wang), 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 | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 look | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 look | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 chop | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 chop | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 chop | aux |
| 15 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 chop | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chop | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up in a quote | present | eyes = eye | soon property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | can | Wang | eyes = eye | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | chop down a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | may | Wang | a tree | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Wang | Wang | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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