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title: Then the Crab said: “But see how much bigger you are; if you were as… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Crab said: “But see how much bigger you are; if you were as small as I am, you would probably not travel any more quickly than I do. Who acts: Crab, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 1

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Then the Crab said: “But see how much bigger you are; if you were as small as I am, you would probably not travel any more quickly than I do.

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**Who acts:** Crab, you · **What happens:** say, see, be, not travel, do · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crab, you), 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:pg65965:6:1
# text = Then the Crab said: “But see how much bigger you are; if you were as small as I am, you would probably not travel any more quickly than I do.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	any	any	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Crab |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | as the Crab *= crab*; small *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **travel** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | probably, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | the Crab *= crab* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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