The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 23

“Friend Crane, you cannot hold me tight enough in your bill, so I will hold on to you with my claws, and you can carry me that way.”

Who acts: Crane, Crab, you, your · What happens: not hold, hold on, carry, bill · To what, where: Crab, bill, you

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, Crab, you, your), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Crane	nmod:desc
3	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hold	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Crane	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hold	advmod
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hold	obj
10	tight	tight	ADV	_	8 hold	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 hold	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 bill	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bill	nmod:poss
14	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hold	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 hold	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hold	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hold	aux
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hold	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 hold	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 hold	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 claws	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 claws	nmod:poss
25	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hold	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 carry	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carry	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 carry	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	aux
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hold	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hold in a quote	can	Crane Friend	Crab		your bill	you nsubj; enough, tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in bill=Location
2	hold on in a quote	future	Crab		you		with my claws	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry in a quote	can	you	Crab			that way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	bill in a quote		your					nom bill «communication 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 23

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 23