The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 23
“I want to be able to look inside it, and I am not tall enough,” said he.
Who acts: man · What happens: want, be, look, not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 able | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tall | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tall | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tall | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tall | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tall | advmod |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 want | xcomp |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 tall | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | inside side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | enough, tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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