The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 31
“That is just to remind you of what will happen if you don’t take me to the pond at once,” said the Crab.
Who acts: That, you, Crab · What happens: be, happen, not take, say · To what, where: you, me, pond · 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 (That, you, Crab), 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 | _ | 6 remind | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 remind | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 remind | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 remind | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remind | mark |
| 6 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 remind | iobj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 happen | mark |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 happen | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 happen | aux |
| 11 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remind | ccomp |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happen | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 pond | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pond | det |
| 20 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 take | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remind | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 remind | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Crab | det |
| 27 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other in a quote | present | That | you | remind property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen in a quote | future | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | me | the pond | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to pond=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Crab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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