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title: “I have it!” cried Wang Chih at last; and he nodded his head so many… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have it!” cried Wang Chih at last; and he nodded his head so many times that the little white crane expected to see it fall off. Who acts: Wang, little white crane, water. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its depend
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 28

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“I have it!” cried Wang Chih at last; and he nodded his head so many times that the little white crane expected to see it fall off.

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**Who acts:** Wang, little white crane, water · **What happens:** have, cry, nod, expect, see, fall off · **To what, where:** water, last, head, little white crane · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, little white crane, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:23:28
# text = “I have it!” cried Wang Chih at last; and he nodded his head so many times that the little white crane expected to see it fall off.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Chih	Chih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Wang | water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Wang |  |  | last |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **nod** | past | Wang | Wang's head |  |  | time |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **expect** | participle · passive |  | the little white crane |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the little white crane *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall off** | infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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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