The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 31
Ho!” cried the dragon, when he saw what Wang Chih had done, “I can soon put this to rights.”
Who acts: Ho, Wang, I · What happens: cry, see, do, put · To what, where: dragon, this · 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 (Ho, Wang, I), 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 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ho | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ho | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 done | obj |
| 12 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 done | nsubj |
| 13 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wang | flat |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 put | advmod |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | conj |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 rights | case |
| 24 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Ho | the dragon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | Ho | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past · perfect | Wang | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | put | can | I | this | to rights; soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Goal |
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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