The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 18

At any rate, when the Crane went to take hold of him with his beak, he said: “You cannot carry me like that, for I should certainly fall.”

Who acts: Crane, You · What happens: go, take, say, not carry, fall, hold · To what, where: hold, rate, Crane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crane, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 rate	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 rate	det
3	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crane	det
7	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rate	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 beak	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beak	nmod:poss
16	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rate	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 carry	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 carry	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 carry	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 carry	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 carry	advmod
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 carry	obj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 carry	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fall	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 fall	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fall	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fall	aux
33	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	34 fall	advmod
34	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 carry	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 carry	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Crane				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	to-infinitive	the Crane not said here	hold of Crane		with Crane's beak	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Crane		any rate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not carry in a quote	can	You	Crane		like that	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	fall in a quote	should	Crane			certainly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold			Crane			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 9, sentence 18

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 18