The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 1

Then the Crab said: “But see how much bigger you are; if you were as small as I am, you would probably not travel any more quickly than I do.

Who acts: Crab, you · What happens: say, see, be, not travel, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crab, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crab	det
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
7	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 bigger	advmod
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 see	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 bigger	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bigger	cop
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 travel	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 small	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 small	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 small	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 small	advmod
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 travel	advcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 I	case
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 small	obl
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 small	cop
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 small	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 travel	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 travel	aux
26	probably	probably	ADV	_	28 travel	advmod
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 travel	advmod
28	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
29	any	any	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 quickly	advmod
31	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	28 travel	advmod
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 do	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
34	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 quickly	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Crab	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	you		big property	tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you		as the Crab = crab; small property	tree rules
5	not travel in a quote	would	you		probably, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do in a quote	present	the Crab = crab			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 6, sentence 1