The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 12
To his surprise he heard the Crab say: “Well, Mr. Fox, with all your boasting, you haven’t beaten me yet!”
Who acts: Fox · What happens: hear, say, not beat, surprise · To what, where: Crab, surprise, me · 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 (Fox), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 surprise | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 3 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprise | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Crab | det |
| 7 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Fox | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Fox | punct |
| 11 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 Fox | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Well | punct |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 beaten | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boasting | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 boasting | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 boasting | det:predet |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boasting | nmod:poss |
| 19 | boasting | boasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beaten | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 beaten | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 beaten | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 beaten | advmod |
| 24 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 say | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 beaten | obj |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 beaten | advmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Fox | the Crab | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crab=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | Fox's surprise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to surprise=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not beat in a quote | present · perfect | Fox Mr. | me | yet | you nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | ||
| 4 | surprise | Fox | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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