The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 28

“I have it!” cried Wang Chih at last; and he nodded his head so many times that the little white crane expected to see it fall off.

Who acts: Wang, little white crane, water · What happens: have, cry, nod, expect, see, fall off · To what, where: water, last, head, little white crane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, little white crane, water), 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wang	flat
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 nodded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nodded	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nodded	nsubj
15	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nodded	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 many	advmod
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nodded	obl:unmarked
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 expected	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 crane	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crane	amod
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crane	amod
25	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 expected	nsubj:pass
26	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nodded	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 expected	xcomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	xcomp
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 fall	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Wang	water			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	Wang		last		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	nod	past	Wang	Wang's head		time	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	expect	participle · passive		the little white crane			tree rules
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little white crane not said here	water			tree rules
6	fall off	infinitive	water not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 23, sentence 28

The tree

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 28