The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 13

But King Speckle-neck said they were all to blame, and the thing to do now was to find some way of escape, and not to waste precious time by quarreling.

Who acts: King neck, followers, thing · What happens: say, blame, do, be, not waste, quarrel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King neck, followers, thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 neck	compound
3	Speckle	Speckle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blame	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blame	aux
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 blame	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 blame	mark
11	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thing	acl
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 do	advmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 find	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 blame	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 escape	case
25	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 way	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 waste	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 waste	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 waste	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 waste	mark
30	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 blame	parataxis
31	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 waste	obj
33	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 quarreling	mark
34	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 waste	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King neck			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	blame	past	followers = follower		all property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	to-infinitive	the thing not said here	now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the thing		some way of escape obj; find property	tree rules
5	not waste	to-infinitive		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	quarrel	gerund				vn battle-36.4 «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 8, sentence 13

The tree

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 13