The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 20

But the Crab thought to himself: “If he once got hold of a fish, I doubt very much if he would really let it go into the pond.

Who acts: Crab, hold · What happens: think, get, doubt, let, go, hold · To what, where: Crab, hold, pond, fish · 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 (Crab, hold), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crab	det
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 got	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 got	advmod
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fish	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doubt	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 doubt	nsubj
19	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	conj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	19 doubt	advmod
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
25	really	really	ADV	_	26 let	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 doubt	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 pond	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pond	det
31	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Crab		Crab			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Crab	hold of a fish			once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	doubt in a quote	present	the Crab = crab					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	Crab	hold				tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	hold not said here			the pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pond=Initial_Location
6	hold in a quote			a fish				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 20