The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

“You will never see another pond,” replied the Crane, who thought that it would be the easiest thing in the world to shake the Crab from his neck.

Who acts: You, Crane, pond · What happens: not see, reply, think, be, shake · To what, where: pond, easiest thing, world, Crab, neck · 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 (You, Crane, pond), 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	_	5 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Crane	det
12	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Crane	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 thing	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thing	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 thing	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	easiest	easy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thing	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shake	mark
27	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Crab	det
29	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 shake	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 neck	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shake	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not see in a quote	future	You	another pond		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pond=Stimulus
2	reply speech: assert	past	the Crane			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	past	the Crane			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is a	would	pond	the easiest thing	the world	tree rules
5	shake	to-infinitive		the Crab	Crab's neck	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crab=Theme from neck=Trajectory

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 27

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 27