The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 52
“I know how to do a great many things which would surprise you.
Who acts: wise old Hare, great many things · What happens: know, do, surprise · To what, where: great many things, you · 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 (wise old Hare, great many things), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 do | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 surprise | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 surprise | aux |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 surprise | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the wise old Hare = hare | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | a great many things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | surprise in a quote | would | a great many things | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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