The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 118
Very soon Small-wit (who had been watching all the time) came along, and said to himself, “Oho! my scheme worked well.
Who acts: Small wit, scheme, my · What happens: watch, come along, say, work, scheme · To what, where: wit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small wit, scheme, my), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 came | advmod |
| 3 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wit | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Small | punct |
| 5 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 watching | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 watching | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 watching | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 watching | aux |
| 10 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wit | parataxis |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watching | obl |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 watching | punct |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 worked | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 worked | punct |
| 24 | Oho | oho | INTJ | _ | 28 worked | discourse |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 Oho | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 scheme | nmod:poss |
| 27 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 worked | nsubj |
| 28 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | conj |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 worked | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | Small wit | time | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come along | past | Small wit | along, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | wit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | work in a quote | past | my scheme | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | scheme in a quote | my | nom scheme «cognition 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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