The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 8
So the Crab said: “When I have secured it to your tail, I will say ‘Ready!’ and that will be the signal to start, then go as fast as you like.”
Who acts: Crab, that, you · What happens: say, secure, be, start, go, like · To what, where: offer, Ready, signal · 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, that, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 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 | _ | 10 secured | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 secured | punct |
| 7 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 secured | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 secured | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 secured | aux |
| 10 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 say | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 secured | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tail | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 secured | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | aux |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ready | punct |
| 20 | Ready | Ready | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ready | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ready | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 signal | cc |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 signal | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 signal | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 signal | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 signal | det |
| 28 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Ready | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 start | mark |
| 30 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 signal | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 go | advmod |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 say | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 fast | advmod |
| 35 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 go | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 like | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 like | nsubj |
| 38 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fast | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Crab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | secure in a quote | present · perfect | the Crab = crab | offer | to your tail | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | the Crab = crab | Ready and the signal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ready=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | that | the signal | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | start in a quote | to-infinitive | the Crab = crab not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | the Crab = crab not said here | then | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | like in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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