The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 94
“I hope my beard will never grow as quickly,” said Wang Chih, as he rose and took up his axe again.
Who acts: Wang, beard · What happens: hope, not grow, say, rise, take up · To what, where: axe · 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 (Wang, beard), 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 | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beard | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 grow | advmod |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 quickly | advmod |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 grow | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wang | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rose | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 rose | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rose | nsubj |
| 19 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rose | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 axe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | Wang | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not grow in a quote | future | my beard | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Wang | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | Wang | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take up | past | Wang not said here | Wang's axe | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=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.
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