The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 13
“This is very strange,” said the Fox to himself, “but if I am tired, I know the Crab must be a great deal more so.”
Who acts: This, Fox, Crab · What happens: be, say, know · To what, where: Fox, great deal · 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 (This, Fox, Crab), 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 | _ | 5 strange | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 strange | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strange | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 strange | advmod |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strange | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 strange | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 tired | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 tired | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tired | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | cop |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Crab | det |
| 24 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 deal | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 deal | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 deal | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 deal | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deal | amod |
| 29 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | ccomp |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 so | advmod |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 know | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox | Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the Fox = fox | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | the Fox = fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | must | the Crab | a great deal | tree rules |
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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