Replace clustering with a catalogue, and hand-write the references to judge it against
The pipeline's embed-and-cluster step is dead, and this commit holds both the evidence for that and the step proposed to replace it. Predicaments. Scenes are re-described as "what the person is up against", with no names, jobs or places, then embedded and clustered (redescribe.py, topic_words.py, topic_share.py). The pilot chose qwen3:14b over 3b by reading both side by side. Two defects the pilot exposed are fixed: split.py missed titles in quotes and a contents subtitle after a dash, so three stories had been merged into their neighbours, and strip_names.py read New York place names as people. The corrected corpus is probe/v2 (97 stories, 839 scenes); carry_summaries.py reuses the 829 unchanged v1 summaries. Topic share fell from 20% to 13% at k=60, short of the pre-registered 10%. Hand references. Three corpora were read scene by scene and written up by hand, under the same prompt rules the local models get, as a baseline to judge them against: O. Henry (probe/v2/claude, 839 scenes, 20 situations), Wharton's Descent of Man (probe/wharton, 262 scenes, 16 groups) and Jacobs's The Lady of the Barge (probe/jacobs, 157 scenes, 19 groups). Each has its own README and a readable page. No inference was used for any of them. Catalogue. probe/catalogue maps every hand group in the three references onto 36 situation entries, with an answer key per corpus and one recurrence rule applied to all three. classify.py assigns a scene one entry or none, leave-one-corpus- out; score.py checks it against the key, with a self-test on random labels. Why clustering is out: hand-written predicaments, embedded and clustered exactly as the model's were, agree with the hand grouping at ARI 0.05 — no better than the 14B text's 0.07. Better rewriting cannot rescue it. Embeddings cannot even shortlist: the hand label is the nearest entry 13% of the time and in the top 8 half the time. The classification runs are not here. The dev and test runs are pre-registered in probe/catalogue/README.md with the bar set beforehand, and are blocked on the inference host, whose GPU has fallen off the PCIe bus three times. The 30-scene partial output in out/ is not a result. Review page. The situation review is now a browser page rather than JSON edited by hand (review_page.py, review_page_logic.cjs with Node tests, format schema v2). It has never been rendered in a real browser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014BygvsUXV9eU6oHkTCkKZ1
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"summary": "The skipper tries to refuse the young woman passage but cannot bring himself to say so, and ends up eating supper with the couple.",
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"summary": "Jealous, the mate hints at the skipper's wife, is mocked by the pair, is rude to the girl, and is sent away.",
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"summary": "The girl snubs the mate as 'only the mate'; he turns the tables by threatening to let the skipper explain her presence to his wife alone.",
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"predicament": "A spurned man realises he holds something over the rival who humiliated him, and decides to use it."
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"summary": "The mate refuses to back the skipper's story; the skipper hides the girl below as they arrive to find his wife waiting on the quay.",
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"predicament": "A man hiding an innocent but compromising secret is met by his spouse, while the one person who could clear him refuses to."
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"summary": "The mate pulls meaningful faces behind the skipper's back until the wife grows suspicious; the skipper invents a toothache and tries to steer her away.",
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"predicament": "A man tries to hurry his spouse away from a secret while someone signals behind his back that something is up."
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"summary": "The wife stamps her foot, the hidden girl appears, and the mate lets his brother-in-law take the blame while pretending to shield him.",
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"predicament": "A man caught with an innocent secret is disowned by the one person who could explain it."
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"summary": "The wife abuses the girl, knocks her purse into the water, and orders her off; the mate, now remorseful, takes responsibility and defends her.",
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"predicament": "A man whose spite has got an innocent person abused must decide whether to own up and defend her."
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"summary": "The mate dives repeatedly for the purse to win the girl back; she begs him to come out but refuses to make up.",
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"predicament": "A man tries to win back someone he wronged with a dangerous public show of devotion."
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"summary": "The mate fakes drowning; the skipper rescues him, sees him wink while the girl kisses him, and the wife boxes his ears.",
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"predicament": "A man pretends to be in danger to win sympathy, and the one who saved him sees through it."
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"summary": "The wife takes the girl home to breakfast, leaving both men soaked, while the skipper fends off the mate's apologies with a boathook.",
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"predicament": "Two men who quarrelled over a woman are both left out in the cold by the women they wronged."
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{"chunk":15,"story":1,"summary":"Warmed by whisky, the guest tells tales of distant lands; pressed by his host, he reluctantly produces a dried monkey's paw he calls magic.","predicament":"A guest who wants to leave a dangerous subject alone is coaxed by his hosts' curiosity into bringing it out."},
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{"chunk":16,"story":1,"summary":"The guest explains the paw grants three men three wishes each, that he has had his, and that the last owner wished for death; asked if he would wish again, he wavers.","predicament":"Someone offered a thing that grants wishes is warned by the man who used it that it brings sorrow."},
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{"chunk":18,"story":1,"summary":"Egged on by his joking son, the old man wishes for two hundred pounds to clear the house; the paw twists in his hand, but no money appears.","predicament":"A man half-believing in a promise of easy money must decide whether to test it and what to ask for."},
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{"chunk":19,"story":1,"summary":"An uneasy night passes; in the morning the family laugh off their fears, though the father recalls that the wishes come true in ways that look like coincidence.","predicament":"A family that tempted fate laughs off their fears in daylight while one of them cannot shake them."},
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{"chunk":20,"story":1,"summary":"The son leaves for work; later the mother, half-hoping for money, sees a well-dressed stranger hesitate several times at the gate before coming in.","predicament":"A family waiting on a hoped-for windfall sees a stranger approach who might bring it, or bad news."},
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{"chunk":21,"story":1,"summary":"The stranger, from the son's employers, tells the parents their only son has been killed in the machinery.","predicament":"Parents receive news that their only child has been killed, from someone who cannot bring himself to say it."},
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{"chunk":22,"story":1,"summary":"The firm denies liability but offers compensation of exactly two hundred pounds; the father collapses. They bury their son and sink into silent grief.","predicament":"A man learns the money he wished for has come as compensation for his child's death."},
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{"chunk":23,"story":1,"summary":"A week later the grieving mother remembers the paw's other two wishes and demands that her husband wish their son alive; he calls it madness.","predicament":"A grieving woman seizes on a desperate chance to undo a death, and her spouse is afraid of what it would bring back."},
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{"chunk":24,"story":1,"summary":"The father tells her their son was mutilated beyond recognition, but she insists; terrified, he fetches the paw and makes the second wish.","predicament":"A man pressed by his grieving spouse must decide whether to do something he believes is wicked and dangerous."},
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{"chunk":26,"story":1,"summary":"The mother breaks free and struggles with the bolt; the father finds the paw and makes the third wish, and the door opens on an empty road.","predicament":"A man must use his last chance to undo what his spouse most longs for, before she lets it in."}
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{"chunk":28,"story":2,"summary":"The dying miser refuses to believe he is dying and leave his money; his shipmates circle hopefully, and one finds a money belt on him and guesses his plan to be buried with it.","predicament":"A dying miser, surrounded by people hoping to inherit, is determined that nobody will get his money."},
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{"chunk":29,"story":2,"summary":"The miser dies boasting that he had a boy throw his banknotes overboard; one sailor scares the boy into silence, and the narrator threatens to tell unless let in on the scheme.","predicament":"Someone who spots a colleague quietly scheming to take unclaimed money must decide whether to expose him or join in."},
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{"chunk":30,"story":2,"summary":"The schemer reveals he thinks the boy kept the money; the two agree to split it, and search the boy's bunk and pockets at night without success.","predicament":"Two partners convinced a weaker person is secretly holding a fortune want to find it before anyone else learns of it."},
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{"chunk":33,"story":2,"summary":"When the sailor heads to tell the captain, the boy gives in: he kept the money but, frightened by the searches, hid it in an officer's mattress where he cannot now reach it.","predicament":"Someone forced to share a hidden windfall admits it is now stuck where neither partner can get at it."},
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{"chunk":34,"story":2,"summary":"Neither the man nor the boy can get aft unseen, the officer sleeps on the money every night, and the two partners blame each other.","predicament":"Distrustful partners stare at a fortune they cannot reach without getting caught, and blame each other for it."},
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{"chunk":35,"story":2,"summary":"The boy proposes the man fake an accident to get quartered aft; the man refuses and secretly flatters the officer, asking to buy his mattress as a keepsake.","predicament":"A man wants something a superior owns without revealing why, and tries flattery to get it."},
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{"chunk":36,"story":2,"summary":"The officer plays up the mattress's value and the sailor, afraid to seem eager, settles at two pounds, to be handed over ashore.","predicament":"A buyer who cannot reveal why he wants something is made to pay more by a seller who senses his eagerness."},
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{"chunk":37,"story":2,"summary":"The sailor now plans to cut the boy out and split with the narrator alone, but the suspicious boy shadows him all the way into port.","predicament":"A man who wants to cheat his partner out of a shared prize is watched too closely to slip away."},
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{"chunk":38,"story":2,"summary":"The officer delays the hand-over with a long speech until the boy arrives, sees the sack, and refuses to let them leave without his share.","predicament":"A man trying to slip away with a shared prize is held up until the partner he meant to cheat catches him."},
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{"chunk":40,"story":2,"summary":"The boy never returns, not even for his pay, and the officer smilingly asks the sailor how he slept.","predicament":"A schemer who was outwitted must stand and smile at the people who got the better of him."}
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{"chunk":43,"story":3,"summary":"Refused, the cousin offers to sell compromising old letters, threatening to sell them to a rival suitor; the rich man seizes him and is stopped only by a servant entering.","predicament":"A man is blackmailed by a relative with old letters that could cost him the person he loves."},
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{"chunk":46,"story":3,"summary":"She asks about the missing cousin and defends him; the man bursts out that the cousin was a blackmailer, a liar and a cur.","predicament":"A man hiding a crime hears it discussed innocently and betrays his feelings with an outburst."},
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{"chunk":47,"story":3,"summary":"She is startled by a whisper she imagines saying 'Jem, help me out'; shaken, he tries to take her indoors, but she insists on staying.","predicament":"A guilty man tries to hurry someone away from the scene of his crime, and she insists on staying."},
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{"chunk":48,"story":3,"summary":"She drops her mother's diamond bracelet down the well and wants it drained; he looks at her in horror, then covers it by saying he feared she was falling.","predicament":"A man hiding something learns it may be discovered by an innocent accident, and must not show his fear."},
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{"chunk":49,"story":3,"summary":"He promises to recover the bracelet himself by morning and makes her swear to tell no one; his mother suggests filling the well in.","predicament":"A man must retrieve something from where his secret lies before anyone else goes looking."},
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{"chunk":50,"story":3,"summary":"At night he secretly fishes the well with a line and hook, and dredges up keys instead of the bracelet.","predicament":"A man secretly searching where his crime lies keeps pulling up reminders of it."},
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{"chunk":51,"story":3,"summary":"The hook snags; he gives up, spends a sleepless night, and at dawn meets his grooms, whom he has ordered to lower him into the well.","predicament":"A man who has failed to fix things quietly must now involve others while still keeping his secret."},
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{"chunk":52,"story":3,"summary":"His groom offers to go down instead, since the master looks ill; he refuses curtly and starts to test the air with a candle.","predicament":"A man hiding something is offered help he cannot accept without being found out."},
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{"chunk":53,"story":3,"summary":"The candle is lost; he stops the groom fetching another, strips, and sits a long time on the well's edge before going down.","predicament":"A man who must face the thing he did alone gathers his nerve while others watch and wonder."},
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{"chunk":75,"story":5,"summary":"He fires through the door, raises the alarm, and the police break in and seize the terrified intruder.","predicament":"A man framing an innocent person must act the outraged victim in front of the law."},
|
||||
{"chunk":76,"story":5,"summary":"The intruder swears the body was there when he arrived; the sergeant uncovers it, and the killer feigns horror.","predicament":"A man must play the shocked innocent while the person he framed pleads the truth."},
|
||||
{"chunk":77,"story":5,"summary":"The killer names his friend and accuses the intruder, who accuses him back; the sergeant seems to side with the killer.","predicament":"Someone falsely accused points to the real culprit, who must hold his nerve and keep up his story."},
|
||||
{"chunk":78,"story":5,"summary":"The sergeant takes the pistol, handcuffs the killer without warning, and sends for a doctor, since the victim is not dead.","predicament":"A man who thought he had got away with it learns the one witness who could hang him is still alive."},
|
||||
{"chunk":79,"story":5,"summary":"The dying partner opens his eyes and speaks; the sergeant takes notes and leads the killer away.","predicament":"A man whose deceit has collapsed can only watch as the truth comes out and he is taken away."}
|
||||
]
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 80,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "A ragged stranger swaggers into the best inn in a small town, bullies the waiter who tries to turn him out, and demands to see the landlord.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A penniless newcomer forces his way into a place he does not belong, counting on a secret to back him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 81,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The stranger greets the landlord by another name, a wanted pirate's, and demands clothes, lodging and money in return for silence.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has built a respectable new life is found by an old associate who threatens to expose his past."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 82,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord gives him money; the blackmailer draws a pistol, declares he will take half of everything from now on, and settles in.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man pays off a blackmailer and learns the price will be half of everything, for good."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 83,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord says he has lived honestly for fifteen years and warns the man not to wake the devil in him; the blackmailer meets the landlord's stepdaughter and says he will stay.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A reformed man warns a blackmailer not to push him too far, while the blackmailer sets his sights on the man's family."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 84,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The blackmailer orders the best supper and room, and sleeps with his door barricaded and a pistol under his pillow.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has seized power over another knows the danger he is in, and guards himself even as he gloats."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 85,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "He pushes in at the family breakfast table, eyes the stepdaughter, hints at the landlord's past before her, and goes out to buy new clothes.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A household must make polite space for someone who holds them hostage."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 86,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "Within a month the blackmailer runs the inn; the landlord, failing in health, backs him in sacking a loyal old servant, and his daughter demands to know who is master.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone watches a person she trusts give way at every turn to an intruder, and demands that he stand up for himself."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 87,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord sides with the blackmailer, who threatens to ruin the girl and have the landlord hanged; the landlord pleads for peace.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who is being blackmailed hears his tormentor threaten someone he loves, and must choose between swallowing it and hitting back."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 88,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The inn decays under the blackmailer's rule; the landlord collapses with a fit, which upsets the blackmailer's plans.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A blackmailer's hold depends on his victim's life, and that victim suddenly collapses."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 89,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord lies dying, anxious to please the blackmailer, while his daughter nurses him; the blackmailer resolves to get the hidden money before he dies.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A blackmailer whose victim is dying must grab what he can before his hold disappears."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 90,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The blackmailer threatens to inform; the dying man begs for time and promises to reveal his money that night if his daughter gets a share.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A dying man pressed by his tormentor bargains for time and for provision for someone he loves."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 91,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "At night the blackmailer drugs the nurse and demands the money; the landlord extracts his promise about the daughter.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who thinks his helpless victim is at his mercy leans in close to hear the secret."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 92,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The 'dying' landlord seizes and strangles him, revealing he has been shamming weakness and planning to blame the killing on the blackmailer's own followers.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who pretended to be helpless strikes at the tormentor who threatened his family."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 93,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "He stages the scene as a robbery and returns to bed as the drugged nurse unwittingly provides his alibi.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has done a desperate thing arranges things so that suspicion falls elsewhere."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{"chunk":94,"story":7,"summary":"An old villager chats with a travelling painter repainting the inn sign, which had been mistaken for a portrait of a king.","predicament":"A craftsman told his work looks like something else quietly fixes it before anyone else notices."},
|
||||
{"chunk":95,"story":7,"summary":"The painter shares his beer, and the old man begins the tale of a travelling circus that stopped in the village.","predicament":"An old man looking for a free drink offers a story in exchange."},
|
||||
{"chunk":96,"story":7,"summary":"News comes that the circus tiger has escaped nearby; a tramp comes running to the inn shouting that the tiger is after him, and the drinkers rush indoors.","predicament":"People who laughed at a distant danger panic when it seems to have arrived on their doorstep."},
|
||||
{"chunk":97,"story":7,"summary":"The landlord bars the door against the tramp; a man knocks the landlord down to get out to protect the families, and the tramp gets in.","predicament":"Someone must choose between keeping himself safe behind a barred door and letting in a stranger in danger."},
|
||||
{"chunk":98,"story":7,"summary":"The tramp, revived with free brandy, tells a vivid tale of fleeing the tiger, and the men are afraid to go home.","predicament":"A stranger with a thrilling tale of danger is rewarded by a frightened crowd without anyone checking it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":99,"story":7,"summary":"The men sleep at the inn; the tramp is gone by morning; the village lives in fear, though the local rogue laughs at the whole thing.","predicament":"A community living in fear of an unseen threat ignores the one doubter, because he has a bad name."},
|
||||
{"chunk":100,"story":7,"summary":"A villager's hens are taken; he carries the evidence to the constable in the next village, who shoves him away as drunk.","predicament":"A man who has suffered a loss goes to the authorities for help and is brushed off as a nuisance."},
|
||||
{"chunk":101,"story":7,"summary":"Pigs vanish night after night; the authorities do nothing, and neighbours squabble over whether to take animals indoors.","predicament":"A community suffering repeated losses cannot get help, and cannot agree how to protect itself."},
|
||||
{"chunk":102,"story":7,"summary":"Children claim sightings, and a villager staggers in describing how the tiger chased him up a tree.","predicament":"A man tells a dramatic story of narrow escape to an audience eager to believe it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":103,"story":7,"summary":"When one man questions the story, the rogue 'confirms' it, claiming he watched from another tree; the storyteller, caught out, goes home silent.","predicament":"A man caught in a boastful lie is 'backed up' by a rival, who now has him trapped by it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":104,"story":7,"summary":"The neighbouring town and the clergyman say there was no tiger; after more losses a former militiaman raises a band of seventeen to hunt it.","predicament":"People told their fears are nonsense by outsiders decide to take matters into their own hands."},
|
||||
{"chunk":105,"story":7,"summary":"The hunt searches the wood timidly and finds nothing; back at the inn, an old man reports the tiger has just gone into the rogue's cottage.","predicament":"A band that set out to face a danger returns relieved to have found nothing, and is then called to face it for real."},
|
||||
{"chunk":106,"story":7,"summary":"The armed men crowd into the rogue's cottage, pushing him ahead of them, despite his protests.","predicament":"A man with something to hide has an armed crowd force its way into his home."},
|
||||
{"chunk":107,"story":7,"summary":"His kitchen is full of pork and poultry; accused of theft, he brazenly claims to have gone into the meat trade.","predicament":"A man caught with the evidence of his thefts brazens it out and dares his accusers to prove anything."},
|
||||
{"chunk":108,"story":7,"summary":"He turns their own tiger sightings against them: those who swore they saw it would have to repeat it on oath.","predicament":"A man accused of wrongdoing turns his accusers' own exaggerations into his defence."},
|
||||
{"chunk":109,"story":7,"summary":"He claims to have receipts, offers to sell them the meat, and gets away with it; he and the tramp turn out to have known each other.","predicament":"People who know they were swindled cannot prove it, and must watch the swindler profit."}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{"chunk":110,"story":8,"summary":"A retired officer, dressed with great care, sets out on a hot afternoon and overtakes a friend who stares uneasily at his loud tie.","predicament":"A man nervously setting out to do something that matters to him is stopped by a friend with questions."},
|
||||
{"chunk":111,"story":8,"summary":"The officer confides he is going to propose to a widow; his friend, equally dressed up, says he is on the same errand, and the two race along the road.","predicament":"A man discovers a friend is after the same person he is, on the same day, and each races to get there first."},
|
||||
{"chunk":112,"story":8,"summary":"Followed by jeering boys, they stop and agree they cannot propose together, but neither will yield the day, each pleading an excuse.","predicament":"Two rivals agree someone must go first, and neither will be the one to wait."},
|
||||
{"chunk":113,"story":8,"summary":"Each claims precedence; the officer vows that if they go together he will match any proposal on the spot, and refuses to be put off.","predicament":"Two rivals for the same prize trade claims of priority, and each suspects the other of a trick."},
|
||||
{"chunk":114,"story":8,"summary":"The officer proposes they play one game of chess for the right to propose first; the friend agrees, on condition that if the winner is refused, the loser may not propose without his permission.","predicament":"Two rivals agree to settle who goes first by a game, and one slips in a condition the other does not examine."},
|
||||
{"chunk":115,"story":8,"summary":"The officer offers his rival a large brandy, which the rival sets aside; after a long game the rival checkmates him with a bishop the officer had forgotten.","predicament":"A man who tried to tip a contest in his favour loses it through his own oversight."},
|
||||
{"chunk":116,"story":8,"summary":"The winner tidies himself in the loser's house and goes off to propose; the loser waits up all night and next morning goes to hear the result.","predicament":"A man who lost the right to try first must wait while his rival takes his chance."},
|
||||
{"chunk":117,"story":8,"summary":"The rival was refused, but holds the officer to the condition and plans to keep proposing until the widow accepts him.","predicament":"A man finds the rival he lost to has been refused, but can still use the terms of their bargain to keep him out."},
|
||||
{"chunk":118,"story":8,"summary":"The rival says he will warn the widow off the officer, suggests the officer court her companion instead, and the officer storms out and sulks for weeks.","predicament":"A man bound by a promise he made watches a rival use it to keep him from what he wants."},
|
||||
{"chunk":119,"story":8,"summary":"Meeting the widow by chance, the officer confesses the chess game to explain his absence; she is indignant, then laughs.","predicament":"A man who has been avoiding someone he cares for must explain why, and the only honest answer is embarrassing."},
|
||||
{"chunk":120,"story":8,"summary":"She says she is angry with him for losing, and proposes a plan so that he can win at cards what he lost at chess, under the rival's eyes.","predicament":"A man bound by a rash promise finds the person he hoped to win is willing to help him get round it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":121,"story":8,"summary":"Playing cards, the widow asks the officer if he would like her hand; he takes it and kisses it, she 'meant the cards', then lets him keep it, and the rival is left fuming.","predicament":"Someone arranges to accept the suitor she prefers in a way his rival cannot object to."}
|
||||
]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
|
||||
[
|
||||
{"chunk":122,"story":9,"summary":"A man wakes up thirsty in a cramped, reeking bunk, with a stranger's face swearing at him, and cannot tell where he is.","predicament":"A man wakes up somewhere strange with no idea how he got there."},
|
||||
{"chunk":123,"story":9,"summary":"He realises he is on a ship, dressed in rags; he finds his friend among the sleepers and learns the ship's name.","predicament":"A man in an unknown place looks for his one companion and a first clue to how they came to be there."},
|
||||
{"chunk":124,"story":9,"summary":"Seasick and far from land, he goes aft and demands to be taken home; the officer calls him mad and orders him forward.","predicament":"A man who has always been obeyed tries to give orders somewhere nobody knows or believes who he is."},
|
||||
{"chunk":125,"story":9,"summary":"His friend tries to threaten legal consequences but is too sick to finish; the two bicker over which of them was drunk.","predicament":"Two people in trouble together try to put on a united front and end up blaming each other."},
|
||||
{"chunk":126,"story":9,"summary":"The captain says they signed on as cook and seaman, calls them drunk impostors, and threatens jail; they are put to work.","predicament":"Two people who claim to be respected professionals are treated as impostors and forced to do menial work."},
|
||||
{"chunk":127,"story":9,"summary":"The crew mocks their claims of being drugged and of sobriety; their airs make the officers dislike them all the more.","predicament":"People brought low insist on their old status, and are mocked for it by those around them."},
|
||||
{"chunk":128,"story":9,"summary":"The captain humiliates the cook; the cook obeys, tidies the cabin, and comes back with a secret smile and something in his pocket, telling his friend it won't be for long.","predicament":"A humiliated man pretends to submit while he quietly prepares his revenge."},
|
||||
{"chunk":129,"story":9,"summary":"The captain is struck with violent pains; the cook refuses to treat him, as he 'only shipped as cook', until he agrees to pay a professional fee.","predicament":"A man mocked for claiming skill is suddenly needed for it, and names his price."},
|
||||
{"chunk":130,"story":9,"summary":"The cook prescribes, collects his fee, scares the captain about making a will, and has the mate sent out for snuffling.","predicament":"A man who has gained the upper hand over those who humiliated him enjoys every moment of it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":131,"story":9,"summary":"The cook hints he dosed the food from the medicine chest; the mate falls ill too, and the cook demands to be treated as surgeon.","predicament":"A man who has secretly caused the trouble only he can cure makes the most of it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":132,"story":9,"summary":"The mate haggles over the fee; the second officer falls ill too; the sick captain scolds the sick mate for being ill at all.","predicament":"A man who swore he would never pay the person he scorned is forced by suffering to haggle with him."},
|
||||
{"chunk":133,"story":9,"summary":"The cook treats and weakens all three officers; the captain and mate pay the other man to draw up their wills; they recover slowly as they reach port.","predicament":"People who scorned two outsiders now depend on them completely, and pay for the privilege."},
|
||||
{"chunk":134,"story":9,"summary":"Ashore, the cook tells the captain he ate something that disagreed with him, and leaves with a wave.","predicament":"A man who got even with his tormentors leaves them knowing they were had."}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{"chunk":135,"story":10,"summary":"At a crowded family breakfast, a poor widow living with her sister's family gets a letter and reads it so slowly that the others nearly burst with impatience.","predicament":"Someone given news that might change their life cannot take it in, while the people around them itch to know."},
|
||||
{"chunk":136,"story":10,"summary":"The widow fears the letter is a hoax; her brother-in-law thinks so too, until her sister reads it and rejoices.","predicament":"Someone who has never had luck is told of a windfall and is afraid to believe it."},
|
||||
{"chunk":137,"story":10,"summary":"The widow has inherited two thousand pounds from a former employer; the brother-in-law grumbles that nobody ever left him anything, and spreads the news through the town.","predicament":"A man sees a relative come into money and resents that luck never comes his way."},
|
||||
{"chunk":138,"story":10,"summary":"Local men suddenly befriend the brother-in-law; his wife points out that two old dealers are courting the heiress for her money.","predicament":"A man flattered by new friends is told they are really after a relative's money."},
|
||||
{"chunk":139,"story":10,"summary":"The brother-in-law watches the two suitors flatter the widow and tries to undercut them by announcing her age, nearly giving away his wife's.","predicament":"A man trying to expose flattering suitors trips over his own family's sensibilities."},
|
||||
{"chunk":140,"story":10,"summary":"The suitors outbid each other with compliments; the wife's temper frays, and the visitors are shown out with the door shut hard.","predicament":"Two rivals courting the same person keep topping each other's compliments while the family grows fed up."},
|
||||
{"chunk":141,"story":10,"summary":"The family, wanting to keep the money, fail to warn the widow; the slow dealer, losing ground to his glib rival, hatches a plan and enlists a small-time dealer.","predicament":"A slow-talking man losing a contest to a glib rival looks for a trick instead of better words."},
|
||||
{"chunk":142,"story":10,"summary":"The dealer bribes an accomplice, who holds out for a bigger fee, to tell the rival in confidence that the widow has lost her fortune; the rival swallows it.","predicament":"A man hires someone to spread a false rumour that will drive off his rival, and the hireling drives a hard bargain."},
|
||||
{"chunk":143,"story":10,"summary":"With the rival gone, the dealer courts the widow alone, preaching the virtues of poverty, and loses seven games of draughts to her on purpose.","predicament":"A man courting for money pretends not to care about it and flatters the one he courts by letting her win."},
|
||||
{"chunk":144,"story":10,"summary":"He blows her kisses and fusses over a bumped head, invites himself back, and walks home sure the money is his.","predicament":"A schemer who thinks his deal is done walks away gloating too soon."},
|
||||
{"chunk":145,"story":10,"summary":"He spreads the rumour of her ruin through the town, then proposes publicly 'now that she is poor', to look noble.","predicament":"A man makes a public show of selfless devotion, sure that it will cost him nothing."},
|
||||
{"chunk":146,"story":10,"summary":"She accepts; the family, touched, apologise for misjudging him, then mention a letter that arrived.","predicament":"A schemer whose plan has worked is thanked for his goodness while the ground starts to shift under him."},
|
||||
{"chunk":147,"story":10,"summary":"The lawyers' letter says a later will was found and she has nothing; the dealer, now engaged to a poor woman, is left alone with her to court.","predicament":"A man who faked a disaster to win a prize learns the disaster is real, and he is bound to his promise."}
|
||||
]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 148,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "In an inn, men trade ghost stories; a sceptical old sailor mocks sailors' visions, then admits one uncanny experience on land.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A sceptic among believers is pressed to admit whether he has ever seen anything he could not explain."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 149,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "As a young man back from abroad, the narrator found his relatives away, took lodgings at a dull inn, and set out on a long country walk.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young man who arrived to find no one expecting him has to fill empty days in a strange place."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 150,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "He loses his way in the marshes as fog and night come down, and at last finds a road and hears footsteps.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A traveller lost in the dark and the cold must find shelter before night closes in."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 151,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "A countryman sets him on the road but warns him away from a lit house nearby, said to hide something monstrous; tired, he goes to it anyway.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A worn-out traveller must choose between a long walk on and a nearby shelter he has been warned against."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 152,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "A grim old woman and a huge old man answer; after a furtive exchange the man insists he stay for dinner, and he feels trapped.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A stranger taken in by odd hosts who seem keen to keep him wonders whether he has walked into a trap."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 153,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The host says his son will dine with them in the dark because of his eyes; he puts out the candles, and a strange voice speaks.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest must sit down in the dark with someone he cannot see, on hosts' terms he does not understand."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 154,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The host leaves him alone with the unseen son, and the guest thinks he sees wild eyes shining at him across the table.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest left alone with a stranger he cannot see grows afraid, and must decide whether to trust his hosts."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 155,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The screen falls, and firelight shows the son's ruined face; the father lights the candles and explains his son was disfigured in a fire.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A frightened man sees what he feared, and learns it is someone who was hurt and ashamed to be seen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 156,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The guest apologises warmly; they celebrate the son's birthday until midnight, and the father toasts the children his son saved.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who shrank from someone must make amends, and finds they deserve his respect."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
|
||||
#!/usr/bin/env python3
|
||||
"""Assemble records.json and groups.json from batches/ and groups_src.py, and check them."""
|
||||
import collections, glob, json, pathlib
|
||||
from groups_src import G, STANDING
|
||||
here = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
|
||||
chunks = json.loads((here.parent / 'chunks.json').read_text())
|
||||
stories = json.loads((here.parent / 'stories.json').read_text())
|
||||
recs = [r for f in sorted(glob.glob(str(here / 'batches/s*.json'))) for r in json.loads(open(f).read())]
|
||||
assert [r['chunk'] for r in recs] == list(range(len(chunks))), 'every scene, once, in order'
|
||||
assert all(chunks[r['chunk']]['story'] == r['story'] for r in recs)
|
||||
|
||||
seen = collections.Counter(m for g in G for m in g['members'])
|
||||
dup = [m for m, n in seen.items() if n > 1]
|
||||
assert not dup, f'scenes in two groups: {dup}'
|
||||
by = {r['chunk']: r for r in recs}
|
||||
out = []
|
||||
for g in G:
|
||||
assert 3 <= len(g['options']) <= 5, g['id']
|
||||
st = sorted({by[m]['story'] for m in g['members']})
|
||||
stand = collections.Counter(STANDING[by[m]['story']] for m in g['members'])
|
||||
out.append({
|
||||
'id': g['id'], 'name': g['name'], 'predicament': g['predicament'],
|
||||
'sentence': f"A {g['actor']} wants {g['wants']} from {g['counterpart']}.",
|
||||
'actor': g['actor'], 'wants': g['wants'], 'counterpart': g['counterpart'],
|
||||
'stories': st, 'story_titles': [stories[s]['title'] for s in st],
|
||||
'standing': dict(stand), 'stage': stand.most_common(1)[0][0],
|
||||
'members': [{'chunk': m, 'story': by[m]['story'], 'predicament': by[m]['predicament']} for m in g['members']],
|
||||
'options': [{'text': t, 'source': s, 'moves': mv,
|
||||
'in_group': (int(s.split(':')[1]) in g['members']) if s.startswith('scene:') else None}
|
||||
for t, s, mv in g['options']],
|
||||
})
|
||||
unassigned = [r['chunk'] for r in recs if r['chunk'] not in seen]
|
||||
(here / 'records.json').write_text(json.dumps(recs, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False))
|
||||
(here / 'groups.json').write_text(json.dumps({'groups': out, 'unassigned': unassigned}, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False))
|
||||
multi = sum(len(g['stories']) >= 2 for g in out)
|
||||
print(f'{len(recs)} scenes, {len(out)} groups ({multi} span 2+ stories), '
|
||||
f'{sum(seen.values())} assigned, {len(unassigned)} unassigned: {unassigned}')
|
||||
for g in out:
|
||||
print(f"{g['id']} {len(g['members']):2} scenes {len(g['stories'])} stories stage {g['stage']:6} {g['name']}")
|
||||
src = collections.Counter(o['source'].split(':')[0] for g in out for o in g['options'])
|
||||
print('option sources:', dict(src), '| scene options citing a scene outside their group:',
|
||||
sum(o['in_group'] is False for g in out for o in g['options']))
|
||||
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|
||||
"""Hand-built reference grouping of the Jacobs predicaments (Claude-written, no local inference).
|
||||
|
||||
Each scene is in at most one group; scenes that fit no recurring situation stay unassigned.
|
||||
Options follow DESIGN.md: 3-5 per group, each marked by where it came from --
|
||||
'archetype' a fixed, setting-free option
|
||||
'scene:N' what someone in scene N actually did (or refused to do)
|
||||
'filled' written to fill a gap the scenes leave
|
||||
`moves` names spine paths and a direction only (+ / - / risk). No magnitudes: the model never
|
||||
chooses a number. Skill labels proposed for this corpus: nerve, cunning.
|
||||
"""
|
||||
G = [
|
||||
dict(id='G01', name='Someone who knows your past names a price',
|
||||
predicament='Someone who knows what you did wants paying to keep quiet, and you have a life to lose.',
|
||||
actor='respectable person', wants='silence', counterpart='someone who knows their past',
|
||||
members=[43, 67, 68, 81, 82, 83, 87, 90],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Pay what they ask.', 'scene:82', {'money':'-', 'standing':'+', 'relationships.blackmailer':'+'}),
|
||||
('Refuse, and dare them to tell.', 'scene:43', {'nerve':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Seem to give in, and wait for your moment.', 'scene:87', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.family':'-'}),
|
||||
('Try to take the evidence off them by force.', 'scene:43', {'nerve':'+', 'flags.violent':'set', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Tell the truth yourself before they can.', 'filled', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.blackmailer':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G02', name='Hiding something from someone close who keeps getting near it',
|
||||
predicament='You are hiding something, and someone you care for keeps innocently coming close to it.',
|
||||
actor='person with a secret', wants='to keep it hidden', counterpart='someone close to them',
|
||||
members=[7, 8, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Change the subject and steer them away.', 'scene:47', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.close':'-'}),
|
||||
('Keep your face still and say nothing.', 'archetype', {'nerve':'+'}),
|
||||
('Promise to deal with it yourself, alone.', 'scene:49', {'nerve':'+', 'flags.secret_kept':'set'}),
|
||||
('Tell them the truth.', 'filled', {'relationships.close':'risk', 'standing':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G03', name='Someone innocent is taking the blame for what you did',
|
||||
predicament='Suspicion has fallen on someone else for what you did, and you could let it stay there.',
|
||||
actor='person at fault', wants='to escape blame', counterpart='an innocent suspect',
|
||||
members=[10, 44, 59, 74, 75, 76, 77, 93],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Own up.', 'scene:10', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.suspect':'+'}),
|
||||
('Say nothing and let it pass.', 'archetype', {'relationships.suspect':'-', 'flags.guilty_secret':'set'}),
|
||||
('Quietly steer suspicion away from them without confessing.', 'scene:60', {'cunning':'+'}),
|
||||
('Point at them outright.', 'scene:75', {'standing':'+', 'relationships.suspect':'-', 'flags.guilty_secret':'set'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G04', name='A rival is after the same person',
|
||||
predicament='Someone else wants the person you want, and only one of you can have them.',
|
||||
actor='suitor', wants='the person they are courting', counterpart='a rival',
|
||||
members=[4, 5, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 140, 141, 142],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Race them to it.', 'scene:111', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.rival':'-'}),
|
||||
('Settle it between you by a game or a bargain.', 'scene:114', {'relationships.rival':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Put the rival in a bad light.', 'scene:142', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.rival':'-', 'money':'-'}),
|
||||
('Outdo their compliments.', 'scene:140', {'relationships.courted':'+'}),
|
||||
('Step aside.', 'archetype', {'relationships.rival':'+', 'relationships.courted':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G05', name='A deal you could tip in your favour',
|
||||
predicament='You want something from someone and could quietly tip the deal your way.',
|
||||
actor='bargainer', wants='the better end of a deal', counterpart='the other party',
|
||||
members=[35, 36, 114, 115, 143],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Deal straight.', 'archetype', {'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Hide why you want it and haggle.', 'scene:36', {'cunning':'+', 'money':'-'}),
|
||||
('Butter them up first: let them win, fill their glass.', 'scene:143', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.other':'+'}),
|
||||
('Slip in a condition they will not notice.', 'scene:114', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.other':'risk'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G06', name='Partners who do not trust each other over a shared prize',
|
||||
predicament='You and a partner are after the same prize, and neither of you trusts the other.',
|
||||
actor='partner', wants='their share, or all of it', counterpart='their partner',
|
||||
members=[30, 33, 34, 37, 38, 125],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Split it fairly and keep your word.', 'archetype', {'relationships.partner':'+', 'money':'+'}),
|
||||
('Cut your partner out.', 'scene:37', {'cunning':'+', 'money':'risk', 'relationships.partner':'-'}),
|
||||
('Keep your partner where you can see them.', 'scene:38', {'nerve':'+'}),
|
||||
('Threaten to tell unless they cut you in.', 'scene:29', {'money':'+', 'relationships.partner':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G07', name='People are after your money',
|
||||
predicament='You have money, or people think you do, and everyone around you suddenly wants a piece.',
|
||||
actor='person with money', wants='to keep it', counterpart='people courting it',
|
||||
members=[27, 28, 32, 138, 139],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Enjoy the attention while it lasts.', 'scene:138', {'relationships.flatterer':'+', 'money':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Tell them plainly what you think they are after.', 'filled', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.flatterer':'-'}),
|
||||
('Make sure nobody gets it.', 'scene:28', {'money':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Deny you have anything.', 'scene:32', {'cunning':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G08', name='A windfall with a catch',
|
||||
predicament='Something could change your fortunes overnight, and you are not sure what it will cost.',
|
||||
actor='person of small means', wants='a change of fortune', counterpart='whoever offers it',
|
||||
members=[16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 135, 136, 137],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Try it and see.', 'scene:18', {'money':'+', 'flags.tempted_fate':'set'}),
|
||||
('Throw it away.', 'scene:17', {'nerve':'+'}),
|
||||
('Ask someone who knows before you decide.', 'scene:16', {'relationships.adviser':'+'}),
|
||||
('Keep it quiet until you are sure.', 'filled', {'cunning':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G09', name='Your scheme turns on you',
|
||||
predicament='A plan you were sure of is coming apart, and the people you meant to fool are watching.',
|
||||
actor='schemer', wants='to come out ahead', counterpart='the people they tried to fool',
|
||||
members=[12, 39, 40, 54, 78, 79, 88, 91, 144, 145, 146, 147],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Keep smiling and take your loss.', 'scene:40', {'standing':'-', 'nerve':'+'}),
|
||||
('Brazen it out.', 'scene:107', {'nerve':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Double down on the plan.', 'scene:145', {'cunning':'+', 'money':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Own up and ask for mercy.', 'filled', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.fooled':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G10', name='Treated with contempt by those over you',
|
||||
predicament='People with power over you treat you with contempt, and you want to turn the tables.',
|
||||
actor='person brought low', wants='respect, or revenge', counterpart='those in charge',
|
||||
members=[64, 92, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Swallow it and do as you are told.', 'scene:128', {'relationships.authority':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Insist on who you really are.', 'scene:124', {'standing':'risk', 'relationships.authority':'-'}),
|
||||
('Wait until they need you, then name your price.', 'scene:129', {'money':'+', 'cunning':'+'}),
|
||||
('Get even quietly.', 'scene:131', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.authority':'-', 'flags.revenge':'set'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G11', name='Someone unwelcome has settled into your home',
|
||||
predicament='Someone you do not want has settled into your home, and you cannot seem to make them go.',
|
||||
actor='householder', wants='them gone', counterpart='an unwelcome guest',
|
||||
members=[2, 63, 85, 86],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Tell them to go.', 'filled', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.guest':'-'}),
|
||||
('Put up with it.', 'scene:85', {'relationships.household':'-'}),
|
||||
('Arrange for them to disgrace themselves.', 'scene:63', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.guest':'-'}),
|
||||
('Stand up for the people they are hurting.', 'scene:86', {'relationships.household':'+', 'nerve':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G12', name='Something may be waiting in the dark',
|
||||
predicament='Something frightening may be close by in the dark, and you must decide whether to face it.',
|
||||
actor='frightened person', wants='to be safe', counterpart='whatever is out there',
|
||||
members=[19, 25, 26, 73, 96, 97, 99, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Open the door and look.', 'scene:155', {'nerve':'+', 'flags.faced_fear':'set'}),
|
||||
('Bar the door and stay put.', 'scene:97', {'nerve':'-'}),
|
||||
('Go on through the dark anyway.', 'scene:151', {'nerve':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Laugh it off in front of the others.', 'scene:19', {'standing':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G13', name='Pressed to do something you believe is wrong',
|
||||
predicament='Someone is pressing you to do something you believe is wrong or dangerous.',
|
||||
actor='reluctant person', wants='to do right without losing them', counterpart='the one pressing',
|
||||
members=[23, 24, 29, 62, 69],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Refuse flatly.', 'scene:62', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.presser':'-'}),
|
||||
('Do it, to keep the peace.', 'scene:24', {'relationships.presser':'+', 'flags.did_wrong':'set'}),
|
||||
('Go along, for a share.', 'scene:29', {'money':'+', 'flags.did_wrong':'set'}),
|
||||
('Agree, then quietly undo it.', 'scene:26', {'cunning':'+', 'relationships.presser':'risk'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G14', name='A story nobody can check',
|
||||
predicament='You have a story to tell that nobody can check, and people are ready to believe it.',
|
||||
actor='storyteller', wants='to be believed', counterpart='a listening crowd',
|
||||
members=[95, 98, 102, 103, 148],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Tell it big.', 'scene:102', {'standing':'+', 'flags.tall_tale':'set'}),
|
||||
('Tell it straight.', 'archetype', {'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Get someone to vouch for you.', 'scene:103', {'relationships.voucher':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Say you have seen nothing worth telling.', 'scene:148', {'nerve':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G15', name='Caught where you should not be',
|
||||
predicament='You have been caught where you should not be, and need an explanation right now.',
|
||||
actor='person caught out', wants='to get away with it', counterpart='whoever caught them',
|
||||
members=[9, 14, 58, 60, 65, 66, 106, 107, 108, 119],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Brazen it out.', 'scene:107', {'nerve':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Take the embarrassing explanation you are offered.', 'scene:66', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.catcher':'+'}),
|
||||
('Tell the plain truth.', 'scene:119', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.catcher':'+'}),
|
||||
('Say nothing and slip away.', 'archetype', {'relationships.catcher':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G16', name='Blamed at home',
|
||||
predicament='Someone at home holds you responsible for trouble you think is not your fault.',
|
||||
actor='person being blamed', wants='peace at home', counterpart='the one blaming them',
|
||||
members=[0, 1, 3, 55, 57],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Put it on someone else.', 'scene:9', {'relationships.spouse':'+', 'relationships.other':'-'}),
|
||||
('Keep your head down until it blows over.', 'archetype', {'relationships.spouse':'-'}),
|
||||
('Speak up for yourself.', 'scene:57', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.spouse':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Smooth it over with a peace offering.', 'filled', {'money':'-', 'relationships.spouse':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G17', name='You are sure who did it and cannot prove it',
|
||||
predicament='You are sure who wronged you, and you cannot prove it.',
|
||||
actor='wronged person', wants='what was taken, or justice', counterpart='the suspect',
|
||||
members=[31, 56, 61, 100, 109],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Search them.', 'scene:31', {'relationships.suspect':'-', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Accuse them openly.', 'scene:56', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.suspect':'-'}),
|
||||
('Set a trap.', 'scene:61', {'cunning':'+'}),
|
||||
('Take it to the authorities.', 'scene:100', {'relationships.authority':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Let it drop.', 'archetype', {'money':'-', 'standing':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G18', name='Lost, far from anything you know',
|
||||
predicament='You find yourself lost, far from anyone you know, and must get your bearings.',
|
||||
actor='stranded person', wants='to get back', counterpart='whoever is nearby',
|
||||
members=[122, 123, 149, 150],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Ask the first person you meet for help.', 'scene:151', {'relationships.stranger':'+'}),
|
||||
('Find your companion and make a plan together.', 'scene:123', {'relationships.companion':'+'}),
|
||||
('Push on alone.', 'scene:150', {'nerve':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Demand to be taken back at once.', 'scene:124', {'standing':'risk', 'relationships.authority':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G19', name='Making amends',
|
||||
predicament='You have wronged someone, and want them to forgive you.',
|
||||
actor='person in the wrong', wants='forgiveness', counterpart='the person they wronged',
|
||||
members=[11, 13, 156],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Apologise plainly.', 'scene:156', {'relationships.wronged':'+'}),
|
||||
('Make a grand gesture.', 'scene:11', {'nerve':'+', 'relationships.wronged':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Pay for the damage.', 'filled', {'money':'-', 'relationships.wronged':'+'}),
|
||||
('Leave it and hope it is forgotten.', 'archetype', {'relationships.wronged':'-'})]),
|
||||
]
|
||||
|
||||
# Protagonist standing by story, for stage assignment (DESIGN.md "Stages"). Per story, not per
|
||||
# scene: a coarse first cut, and the one place this grouping uses a judgement not in the text.
|
||||
STANDING = {0:'middle', 1:'middle', 2:'low', 3:'high', 4:'middle', 5:'high', 6:'middle',
|
||||
7:'low', 8:'high', 9:'low', 10:'low', 11:'middle'}
|
||||
# Story 9's professionals are treated as crew for the whole voyage, so they rank low.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
|
||||
#!/usr/bin/env python3
|
||||
"""Render groups.json + records.json as one self-contained page: REFERENCE.html."""
|
||||
import html, json, pathlib
|
||||
here = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
|
||||
d = json.loads((here / 'groups.json').read_text())
|
||||
recs = {r['chunk']: r for r in json.loads((here / 'records.json').read_text())}
|
||||
stories = json.loads((here.parent / 'stories.json').read_text())
|
||||
e = html.escape
|
||||
SRC = {'archetype': 'archetype', 'filled': 'filled gap'}
|
||||
def src(o):
|
||||
if o['source'].startswith('scene:'):
|
||||
n = o['source'].split(':')[1]
|
||||
return f'from scene {n}' + ('' if o['in_group'] else ' <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span>')
|
||||
return SRC[o['source']]
|
||||
def moves(m): return ' '.join(f'<code>{e(k)} {e(v)}</code>' for k, v in m.items())
|
||||
def scene(c):
|
||||
r = recs[c]
|
||||
return (f'<details><summary><b>{c}</b> · <i>{e(stories[r["story"]]["title"])}</i> — {e(r["predicament"])}</summary>'
|
||||
f'<p class="sum">{e(r["summary"])}</p></details>')
|
||||
out = []
|
||||
for g in d['groups']:
|
||||
out.append(f'''<section><h2>{g["id"]} · {e(g["name"])}</h2>
|
||||
<p class="pred">{e(g["predicament"])}</p>
|
||||
<p class="meta">{e(g["sentence"])} · {len(g["members"])} scenes from {len(g["stories"])} stories
|
||||
({e(", ".join(g["story_titles"]))}) · stage <b>{g["stage"]}</b></p>
|
||||
<h3>Options</h3><ol>{"".join(f"<li>{e(o['text'])} <span class='src'>{src(o)}</span><br>{moves(o['moves'])}</li>" for o in g["options"])}</ol>
|
||||
<h3>Scenes</h3>{"".join(scene(m["chunk"]) for m in g["members"])}</section>''')
|
||||
un = ''.join(scene(c) for c in d['unassigned'])
|
||||
page = f'''<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8">
|
||||
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><title>Jacobs Reference Groups</title>
|
||||
<style>
|
||||
:root{{--bg:#fbfaf7;--fg:#1d1d1b;--mute:#6b6760;--line:#e2ded6;--acc:#2f5d8a;--warn:#a4481c}}
|
||||
@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){{:root{{--bg:#191917;--fg:#e8e6e1;--mute:#a09c94;--line:#34332f;--acc:#8ab4dc;--warn:#e6915f}}}}
|
||||
body{{background:var(--bg);color:var(--fg);font:16px/1.5 Georgia,serif;max-width:52rem;margin:0 auto;padding:1rem 16px 4rem}}
|
||||
h1{{font-size:1.5rem}} h2{{font-size:1.15rem;margin:0 0 .3rem}} h3{{font-size:.8rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.06em;color:var(--mute);margin:.9rem 0 .3rem}}
|
||||
section{{border-top:1px solid var(--line);padding:1.2rem 0}} .pred{{font-size:1.05rem;margin:.2rem 0}}
|
||||
.meta,.src,.sum{{color:var(--mute);font-size:.88rem}} .warn{{color:var(--warn)}}
|
||||
code{{font:12px ui-monospace,monospace;border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:3px;padding:0 .3em;margin-right:.2em}}
|
||||
li{{margin:.35rem 0}} details{{margin:.2rem 0}} summary{{cursor:pointer}} .sum{{margin:.2rem 0 .5rem 1.2rem}}
|
||||
</style></head><body>
|
||||
<h1>The Lady of the Barge: reference groups</h1>
|
||||
<p class="meta">W. W. Jacobs, 1902 (Standard Ebooks text). 12 stories, 157 scenes cut by the same rule as <code>chunk.py</code>.
|
||||
Summaries, predicaments, groups and options written by Claude by reading every scene: no local inference.
|
||||
A comparison baseline, not a pack. Option moves give a direction only, never a number.</p>
|
||||
{"".join(out)}
|
||||
<section><h2>Unassigned ({len(d["unassigned"])})</h2><p class="meta">Scenes that fit no situation recurring in two or more stories.</p>{un}</section>
|
||||
</body></html>'''
|
||||
(here / 'REFERENCE.html').write_text(page, encoding='utf-8')
|
||||
print('wrote', here / 'REFERENCE.html', len(page), 'bytes')
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,944 @@
|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 0,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "A skipper waiting up for his late-returning mate and brother-in-law has just lost a shouted argument with a neighbouring crew; the mate arrives and answers his rebuke with cheek.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone waiting up for a relative who comes in late wants to reproach him, and gets cheek back."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 1,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The mate tells the skipper he has invited his sweetheart on the voyage without asking; the skipper is appalled and asks what his wife will say.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man learns a relative has promised a stranger his hospitality without asking, and fears what his spouse will say."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 2,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The skipper tries to refuse the young woman passage but cannot bring himself to say so, and ends up eating supper with the couple.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who wants to turn an unwelcome guest away cannot find the nerve to say it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 3,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The girl balks at her cramped quarters but stays; the skipper warns that his wife will blame him, and the mate says his sister can mind her own business.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has let something happen under his roof fears his spouse will hold him responsible for it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 4,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The skipper insists on chaperoning the girl at meals himself, leaving the mate to steer and eat cold leftovers while she laughs at the skipper's stories.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young man who brought the person he is courting along is pushed aside by an older man who takes charge of her."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 5,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "Jealous, the mate hints at the skipper's wife, is mocked by the pair, is rude to the girl, and is sent away.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A jealous suitor tries to put his rival in his place, and only makes himself look childish."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 6,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The girl snubs the mate as 'only the mate'; he turns the tables by threatening to let the skipper explain her presence to his wife alone.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A spurned man realises he holds something over the rival who humiliated him, and decides to use it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 7,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The mate refuses to back the skipper's story; the skipper hides the girl below as they arrive to find his wife waiting on the quay.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man hiding an innocent but compromising secret is met by his spouse, while the one person who could clear him refuses to."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 8,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The mate pulls meaningful faces behind the skipper's back until the wife grows suspicious; the skipper invents a toothache and tries to steer her away.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man tries to hurry his spouse away from a secret while someone signals behind his back that something is up."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 9,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The wife stamps her foot, the hidden girl appears, and the mate lets his brother-in-law take the blame while pretending to shield him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man caught with an innocent secret is disowned by the one person who could explain it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 10,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The wife abuses the girl, knocks her purse into the water, and orders her off; the mate, now remorseful, takes responsibility and defends her.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man whose spite has got an innocent person abused must decide whether to own up and defend her."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 11,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The mate dives repeatedly for the purse to win the girl back; she begs him to come out but refuses to make up.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man tries to win back someone he wronged with a dangerous public show of devotion."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 12,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The mate fakes drowning; the skipper rescues him, sees him wink while the girl kisses him, and the wife boxes his ears.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man pretends to be in danger to win sympathy, and the one who saved him sees through it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 13,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The wife takes the girl home to breakfast, leaving both men soaked, while the skipper fends off the mate's apologies with a boathook.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two men who quarrelled over a woman are both left out in the cold by the women they wronged."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 14,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "An old man losing at chess to his son grumbles at the weather and their remote house while waiting for a guest, who arrives: an old friend back from long service abroad.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man losing a friendly contest tries to distract from his mistake, and is caught at it by his family."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 15,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Warmed by whisky, the guest tells tales of distant lands; pressed by his host, he reluctantly produces a dried monkey's paw he calls magic.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest who wants to leave a dangerous subject alone is coaxed by his hosts' curiosity into bringing it out."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 16,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The guest explains the paw grants three men three wishes each, that he has had his, and that the last owner wished for death; asked if he would wish again, he wavers.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone offered a thing that grants wishes is warned by the man who used it that it brings sorrow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 17,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The guest throws the paw on the fire; the host snatches it back and keeps it despite repeated warnings to wish sensibly or not at all.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man is offered a dangerous gift by someone who begs him to destroy it, and wants to keep it anyway."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 18,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Egged on by his joking son, the old man wishes for two hundred pounds to clear the house; the paw twists in his hand, but no money appears.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man half-believing in a promise of easy money must decide whether to test it and what to ask for."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 19,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "An uneasy night passes; in the morning the family laugh off their fears, though the father recalls that the wishes come true in ways that look like coincidence.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A family that tempted fate laughs off their fears in daylight while one of them cannot shake them."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 20,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The son leaves for work; later the mother, half-hoping for money, sees a well-dressed stranger hesitate several times at the gate before coming in.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A family waiting on a hoped-for windfall sees a stranger approach who might bring it, or bad news."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 21,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The stranger, from the son's employers, tells the parents their only son has been killed in the machinery.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents receive news that their only child has been killed, from someone who cannot bring himself to say it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 22,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The firm denies liability but offers compensation of exactly two hundred pounds; the father collapses. They bury their son and sink into silent grief.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man learns the money he wished for has come as compensation for his child's death."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 23,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "A week later the grieving mother remembers the paw's other two wishes and demands that her husband wish their son alive; he calls it madness.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A grieving woman seizes on a desperate chance to undo a death, and her spouse is afraid of what it would bring back."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 24,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The father tells her their son was mutilated beyond recognition, but she insists; terrified, he fetches the paw and makes the second wish.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man pressed by his grieving spouse must decide whether to do something he believes is wicked and dangerous."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 25,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Nothing seems to happen; then a stealthy knock comes at the door, and the mother cries that it is their son while the father holds her back.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who dreads what his wish may bring home must stop his spouse from opening the door to it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 26,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The mother breaks free and struggles with the bolt; the father finds the paw and makes the third wish, and the door opens on an empty road.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man must use his last chance to undo what his spouse most longs for, before she lets it in."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 27,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "An old watchman recalls a shipmate, an aged miser worth six hundred pounds, who fell ill a month out on the voyage home.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has hoarded his savings all his life falls ill far from anywhere he could spend them."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 28,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The dying miser refuses to believe he is dying and leave his money; his shipmates circle hopefully, and one finds a money belt on him and guesses his plan to be buried with it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A dying miser, surrounded by people hoping to inherit, is determined that nobody will get his money."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 29,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The miser dies boasting that he had a boy throw his banknotes overboard; one sailor scares the boy into silence, and the narrator threatens to tell unless let in on the scheme.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone who spots a colleague quietly scheming to take unclaimed money must decide whether to expose him or join in."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 30,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The schemer reveals he thinks the boy kept the money; the two agree to split it, and search the boy's bunk and pockets at night without success.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two partners convinced a weaker person is secretly holding a fortune want to find it before anyone else learns of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 31,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "A night search is foiled when a ticklish shipmate wakes screaming; a week of prodding the boy finds nothing, so they corner him and demand the money outright.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A schemer whose secret searches keep failing decides to confront the person he suspects directly."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 32,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The boy insists he threw the money overboard; they search him, offer him a third, then threaten to have him searched ashore and jailed.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone suspected of hiding a windfall is pressed with bribes and threats by people who have no right to it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 33,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "When the sailor heads to tell the captain, the boy gives in: he kept the money but, frightened by the searches, hid it in an officer's mattress where he cannot now reach it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone forced to share a hidden windfall admits it is now stuck where neither partner can get at it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 34,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Neither the man nor the boy can get aft unseen, the officer sleeps on the money every night, and the two partners blame each other.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Distrustful partners stare at a fortune they cannot reach without getting caught, and blame each other for it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 35,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The boy proposes the man fake an accident to get quartered aft; the man refuses and secretly flatters the officer, asking to buy his mattress as a keepsake.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man wants something a superior owns without revealing why, and tries flattery to get it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 36,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The officer plays up the mattress's value and the sailor, afraid to seem eager, settles at two pounds, to be handed over ashore.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A buyer who cannot reveal why he wants something is made to pay more by a seller who senses his eagerness."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 37,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The sailor now plans to cut the boy out and split with the narrator alone, but the suspicious boy shadows him all the way into port.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who wants to cheat his partner out of a shared prize is watched too closely to slip away."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 38,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The officer delays the hand-over with a long speech until the boy arrives, sees the sack, and refuses to let them leave without his share.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man trying to slip away with a shared prize is held up until the partner he meant to cheat catches him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 39,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The boy stays on deck while the men cut the mattress open below; it is empty, and when they come up the boy has vanished.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who schemed to cheat a partner finds the prize gone and realises he may have been cheated himself."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 40,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "The boy never returns, not even for his pay, and the officer smilingly asks the sailor how he slept.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A schemer who was outwitted must stand and smile at the people who got the better of him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 41,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "A rich man soon to marry sits with his idle, indebted cousin, who needles him about his wealth and his fiancée's goodness.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man about to marry is needled by a dependent relative who hints at something to his discredit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 42,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "The cousin hints that the fiancée would drop him if she knew what he really was, then says he needs fifteen hundred pounds within a fortnight or faces prison.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man in desperate debt makes veiled hints to the relative he hopes will pay it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 43,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Refused, the cousin offers to sell compromising old letters, threatening to sell them to a rival suitor; the rich man seizes him and is stopped only by a servant entering.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man is blackmailed by a relative with old letters that could cost him the person he loves."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 44,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "The cousin walks out into the park to let him think it over; the rich man follows, and later tells his mother the cousin has gone for good after a quarrel over money.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has done something terrible in anger must cover for a relative's sudden disappearance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 45,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "The man walks with his fiancée to a disused well in the park, her favourite spot; he urges her not to sit on its edge.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man with a guilty secret must keep calm while someone he loves insists on lingering right at the spot."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 46,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "She asks about the missing cousin and defends him; the man bursts out that the cousin was a blackmailer, a liar and a cur.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man hiding a crime hears it discussed innocently and betrays his feelings with an outburst."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 47,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "She is startled by a whisper she imagines saying 'Jem, help me out'; shaken, he tries to take her indoors, but she insists on staying.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guilty man tries to hurry someone away from the scene of his crime, and she insists on staying."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 48,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "She drops her mother's diamond bracelet down the well and wants it drained; he looks at her in horror, then covers it by saying he feared she was falling.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man hiding something learns it may be discovered by an innocent accident, and must not show his fear."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 49,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "He promises to recover the bracelet himself by morning and makes her swear to tell no one; his mother suggests filling the well in.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man must retrieve something from where his secret lies before anyone else goes looking."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 50,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "At night he secretly fishes the well with a line and hook, and dredges up keys instead of the bracelet.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man secretly searching where his crime lies keeps pulling up reminders of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 51,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "The hook snags; he gives up, spends a sleepless night, and at dawn meets his grooms, whom he has ordered to lower him into the well.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has failed to fix things quietly must now involve others while still keeping his secret."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 52,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "His groom offers to go down instead, since the master looks ill; he refuses curtly and starts to test the air with a candle.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man hiding something is offered help he cannot accept without being found out."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 53,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "The candle is lost; he stops the groom fetching another, strips, and sits a long time on the well's edge before going down.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who must face the thing he did alone gathers his nerve while others watch and wonder."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 54,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Below, something drags at the rope; the grooms haul up the dead cousin's face with their master behind it, let go in horror, and both fall back into the water.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who hid a crime is dragged down by it at the moment he tries to undo its consequences."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 55,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "A farmer's wife, her husband, and her retired-policeman uncle discuss a stolen brooch; the uncle has been hiding under their bed hoping to catch the thief, and the wife casts suspicion on a neighbour while accusing her husband of not caring.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A woman who has lost something valuable suspects the people around her, and resents her spouse for not caring as much."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 56,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The uncle declares everyone guilty until proven innocent; the wife recounts missing the brooch, accusing and sacking her servant, who cried on her box.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone who has lost something accuses the most defenceless person nearby, and punishes her before any proof."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 57,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The servant's box held nothing; the husband defends her and is snapped at, while the uncle, pencil and notebook out, pursues the investigation with great ceremony.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who thinks a household fuss is foolish keeps defending the accused and is scolded for taking her side."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 58,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The husband eats a lozenge from the evidence box and cannot stop laughing; the uncle establishes that no one could have entered the bedroom unheard.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who finds a family inquiry ridiculous cannot keep a straight face in front of its self-important leader."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 59,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Suspicion turns to a widow who visited that morning; the uncle finds muddy footprints on the stairs, which are in fact the husband's, and he stays guiltily quiet.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who sees an innocent neighbour blamed for evidence he himself left must decide whether to own up."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 60,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The husband slyly deflects the footprint evidence, then exchanges silent signals with his wife until the uncle demands to know what is funny.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who knows more than he says can barely hide his amusement from the self-important person running the inquiry."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 61,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The husband reveals he thinks the widow is after the uncle, not the brooch; the uncle is outraged, then proposes inviting her to tea to trap her into confessing.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A self-important man, teased that a neighbour fancies him, resolves to prove his point by trapping her."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 62,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The husband refuses to have a guest trapped in his house; the uncle secretly tells his niece he will search the widow's cottage without leave.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man refuses to let his home be used to entrap a friend, so the schemer plans to go behind his back."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 63,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The husband, who resents the uncle living with them for his wife's hopes of an inheritance, plans to let the widow catch the uncle searching her house, and shadows him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man stuck with an unwelcome relative in his home sees a chance to have him disgraced and driven off."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 64,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The husband brings the widow home early; the uncle, trapped inside, hides in the larder, and the husband settles in for beer and begins praising him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has trapped his rival in an embarrassing hiding place decides to make the most of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 65,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Within the uncle's hearing, the husband tells the widow the uncle is shy and devoted to her, and has been asking whether she likes jewellery.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A trapped man must listen in silence while someone tells a neighbour a story about him that he cannot deny."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 66,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Asked for bread and cheese, the widow opens the larder, the uncle bursts out, and her friend takes his hiding there as a bashful suitor's courtship.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man caught somewhere he should not be is handed an embarrassing explanation, and has no better one to offer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 67,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Late at night one co-owner of a house and a business sits hating his partner, who has discovered his embezzlement and ordered him to leave both by morning.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man found out in wrongdoing is ordered by his partner to give up everything and leave by morning."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 68,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The honest partner refuses to cover the theft quietly, offers the exile two hundred pounds, and mentions the servants are away until morning.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man offered a harsh but fair way out of his disgrace wants a quieter bargain the other will not give."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 69,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The exile demands the matter be hushed up, draws a sword from the wall, and stabs his partner when he refuses.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man facing ruin threatens the only person who can expose him, and must choose whether to go through with it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 70,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Sickened, the killer turns out the lights, flees to the gate, and sees a constable coming up the road.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has just done something terrible in rage panics and must steady himself when a figure of the law appears."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 71,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "He bids the constable good night, returns inside, and gathers his cash and valuables, reckoning he has eight hours' start.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man with a crime behind him and a few hours' start must decide what to take and where to run."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 72,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "He plans his escape, weighing a crowded district against the seaside, and finds every choice may mean life or death.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A fugitive planning his escape finds that every choice might be the one that gets him caught."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 73,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "At one o'clock he hears creaks on the stairs, and fears the dead man is moving about the house.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man alone with what he has done hears noises in the dark and fears it has come back for him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 74,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Finding the library door open, he locks someone inside, then realises it is a burglar he can blame for the killing.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guilty man realises a stranger's blunder gives him someone else to blame."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 75,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "He fires through the door, raises the alarm, and the police break in and seize the terrified intruder.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man framing an innocent person must act the outraged victim in front of the law."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 76,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The intruder swears the body was there when he arrived; the sergeant uncovers it, and the killer feigns horror.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man must play the shocked innocent while the person he framed pleads the truth."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 77,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The killer names his friend and accuses the intruder, who accuses him back; the sergeant seems to side with the killer.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone falsely accused points to the real culprit, who must hold his nerve and keep up his story."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 78,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The sergeant takes the pistol, handcuffs the killer without warning, and sends for a doctor, since the victim is not dead.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who thought he had got away with it learns the one witness who could hang him is still alive."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 79,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The dying partner opens his eyes and speaks; the sergeant takes notes and leads the killer away.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man whose deceit has collapsed can only watch as the truth comes out and he is taken away."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 80,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "A ragged stranger swaggers into the best inn in a small town, bullies the waiter who tries to turn him out, and demands to see the landlord.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A penniless newcomer forces his way into a place he does not belong, counting on a secret to back him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 81,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The stranger greets the landlord by another name, a wanted pirate's, and demands clothes, lodging and money in return for silence.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has built a respectable new life is found by an old associate who threatens to expose his past."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 82,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord gives him money; the blackmailer draws a pistol, declares he will take half of everything from now on, and settles in.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man pays off a blackmailer and learns the price will be half of everything, for good."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 83,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord says he has lived honestly for fifteen years and warns the man not to wake the devil in him; the blackmailer meets the landlord's stepdaughter and says he will stay.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A reformed man warns a blackmailer not to push him too far, while the blackmailer sets his sights on the man's family."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 84,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The blackmailer orders the best supper and room, and sleeps with his door barricaded and a pistol under his pillow.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has seized power over another knows the danger he is in, and guards himself even as he gloats."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 85,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "He pushes in at the family breakfast table, eyes the stepdaughter, hints at the landlord's past before her, and goes out to buy new clothes.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A household must make polite space for someone who holds them hostage."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 86,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "Within a month the blackmailer runs the inn; the landlord, failing in health, backs him in sacking a loyal old servant, and his daughter demands to know who is master.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone watches a person she trusts give way at every turn to an intruder, and demands that he stand up for himself."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 87,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord sides with the blackmailer, who threatens to ruin the girl and have the landlord hanged; the landlord pleads for peace.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who is being blackmailed hears his tormentor threaten someone he loves, and must choose between swallowing it and hitting back."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 88,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The inn decays under the blackmailer's rule; the landlord collapses with a fit, which upsets the blackmailer's plans.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A blackmailer's hold depends on his victim's life, and that victim suddenly collapses."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 89,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord lies dying, anxious to please the blackmailer, while his daughter nurses him; the blackmailer resolves to get the hidden money before he dies.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A blackmailer whose victim is dying must grab what he can before his hold disappears."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 90,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The blackmailer threatens to inform; the dying man begs for time and promises to reveal his money that night if his daughter gets a share.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A dying man pressed by his tormentor bargains for time and for provision for someone he loves."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 91,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "At night the blackmailer drugs the nurse and demands the money; the landlord extracts his promise about the daughter.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who thinks his helpless victim is at his mercy leans in close to hear the secret."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 92,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The 'dying' landlord seizes and strangles him, revealing he has been shamming weakness and planning to blame the killing on the blackmailer's own followers.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who pretended to be helpless strikes at the tormentor who threatened his family."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 93,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "He stages the scene as a robbery and returns to bed as the drugged nurse unwittingly provides his alibi.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has done a desperate thing arranges things so that suspicion falls elsewhere."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 94,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "An old villager chats with a travelling painter repainting the inn sign, which had been mistaken for a portrait of a king.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A craftsman told his work looks like something else quietly fixes it before anyone else notices."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 95,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The painter shares his beer, and the old man begins the tale of a travelling circus that stopped in the village.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old man looking for a free drink offers a story in exchange."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 96,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "News comes that the circus tiger has escaped nearby; a tramp comes running to the inn shouting that the tiger is after him, and the drinkers rush indoors.",
|
||||
"predicament": "People who laughed at a distant danger panic when it seems to have arrived on their doorstep."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 97,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The landlord bars the door against the tramp; a man knocks the landlord down to get out to protect the families, and the tramp gets in.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone must choose between keeping himself safe behind a barred door and letting in a stranger in danger."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 98,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The tramp, revived with free brandy, tells a vivid tale of fleeing the tiger, and the men are afraid to go home.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A stranger with a thrilling tale of danger is rewarded by a frightened crowd without anyone checking it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 99,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The men sleep at the inn; the tramp is gone by morning; the village lives in fear, though the local rogue laughs at the whole thing.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A community living in fear of an unseen threat ignores the one doubter, because he has a bad name."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 100,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "A villager's hens are taken; he carries the evidence to the constable in the next village, who shoves him away as drunk.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has suffered a loss goes to the authorities for help and is brushed off as a nuisance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 101,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Pigs vanish night after night; the authorities do nothing, and neighbours squabble over whether to take animals indoors.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A community suffering repeated losses cannot get help, and cannot agree how to protect itself."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 102,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Children claim sightings, and a villager staggers in describing how the tiger chased him up a tree.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man tells a dramatic story of narrow escape to an audience eager to believe it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 103,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "When one man questions the story, the rogue 'confirms' it, claiming he watched from another tree; the storyteller, caught out, goes home silent.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man caught in a boastful lie is 'backed up' by a rival, who now has him trapped by it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 104,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The neighbouring town and the clergyman say there was no tiger; after more losses a former militiaman raises a band of seventeen to hunt it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "People told their fears are nonsense by outsiders decide to take matters into their own hands."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 105,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The hunt searches the wood timidly and finds nothing; back at the inn, an old man reports the tiger has just gone into the rogue's cottage.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A band that set out to face a danger returns relieved to have found nothing, and is then called to face it for real."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 106,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "The armed men crowd into the rogue's cottage, pushing him ahead of them, despite his protests.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man with something to hide has an armed crowd force its way into his home."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 107,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "His kitchen is full of pork and poultry; accused of theft, he brazenly claims to have gone into the meat trade.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man caught with the evidence of his thefts brazens it out and dares his accusers to prove anything."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 108,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "He turns their own tiger sightings against them: those who swore they saw it would have to repeat it on oath.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man accused of wrongdoing turns his accusers' own exaggerations into his defence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 109,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "He claims to have receipts, offers to sell them the meat, and gets away with it; he and the tramp turn out to have known each other.",
|
||||
"predicament": "People who know they were swindled cannot prove it, and must watch the swindler profit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 110,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "A retired officer, dressed with great care, sets out on a hot afternoon and overtakes a friend who stares uneasily at his loud tie.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man nervously setting out to do something that matters to him is stopped by a friend with questions."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 111,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The officer confides he is going to propose to a widow; his friend, equally dressed up, says he is on the same errand, and the two race along the road.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man discovers a friend is after the same person he is, on the same day, and each races to get there first."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 112,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Followed by jeering boys, they stop and agree they cannot propose together, but neither will yield the day, each pleading an excuse.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two rivals agree someone must go first, and neither will be the one to wait."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 113,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Each claims precedence; the officer vows that if they go together he will match any proposal on the spot, and refuses to be put off.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two rivals for the same prize trade claims of priority, and each suspects the other of a trick."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 114,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The officer proposes they play one game of chess for the right to propose first; the friend agrees, on condition that if the winner is refused, the loser may not propose without his permission.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two rivals agree to settle who goes first by a game, and one slips in a condition the other does not examine."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 115,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The officer offers his rival a large brandy, which the rival sets aside; after a long game the rival checkmates him with a bishop the officer had forgotten.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who tried to tip a contest in his favour loses it through his own oversight."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 116,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The winner tidies himself in the loser's house and goes off to propose; the loser waits up all night and next morning goes to hear the result.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who lost the right to try first must wait while his rival takes his chance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 117,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The rival was refused, but holds the officer to the condition and plans to keep proposing until the widow accepts him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man finds the rival he lost to has been refused, but can still use the terms of their bargain to keep him out."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 118,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The rival says he will warn the widow off the officer, suggests the officer court her companion instead, and the officer storms out and sulks for weeks.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man bound by a promise he made watches a rival use it to keep him from what he wants."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 119,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Meeting the widow by chance, the officer confesses the chess game to explain his absence; she is indignant, then laughs.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has been avoiding someone he cares for must explain why, and the only honest answer is embarrassing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 120,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "She says she is angry with him for losing, and proposes a plan so that he can win at cards what he lost at chess, under the rival's eyes.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man bound by a rash promise finds the person he hoped to win is willing to help him get round it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 121,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Playing cards, the widow asks the officer if he would like her hand; he takes it and kisses it, she 'meant the cards', then lets him keep it, and the rival is left fuming.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone arranges to accept the suitor she prefers in a way his rival cannot object to."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 122,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "A man wakes up thirsty in a cramped, reeking bunk, with a stranger's face swearing at him, and cannot tell where he is.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man wakes up somewhere strange with no idea how he got there."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 123,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "He realises he is on a ship, dressed in rags; he finds his friend among the sleepers and learns the ship's name.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man in an unknown place looks for his one companion and a first clue to how they came to be there."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 124,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "Seasick and far from land, he goes aft and demands to be taken home; the officer calls him mad and orders him forward.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has always been obeyed tries to give orders somewhere nobody knows or believes who he is."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 125,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "His friend tries to threaten legal consequences but is too sick to finish; the two bicker over which of them was drunk.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two people in trouble together try to put on a united front and end up blaming each other."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 126,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The captain says they signed on as cook and seaman, calls them drunk impostors, and threatens jail; they are put to work.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two people who claim to be respected professionals are treated as impostors and forced to do menial work."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 127,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The crew mocks their claims of being drugged and of sobriety; their airs make the officers dislike them all the more.",
|
||||
"predicament": "People brought low insist on their old status, and are mocked for it by those around them."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 128,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The captain humiliates the cook; the cook obeys, tidies the cabin, and comes back with a secret smile and something in his pocket, telling his friend it won't be for long.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A humiliated man pretends to submit while he quietly prepares his revenge."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 129,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The captain is struck with violent pains; the cook refuses to treat him, as he 'only shipped as cook', until he agrees to pay a professional fee.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man mocked for claiming skill is suddenly needed for it, and names his price."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 130,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The cook prescribes, collects his fee, scares the captain about making a will, and has the mate sent out for snuffling.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has gained the upper hand over those who humiliated him enjoys every moment of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 131,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The cook hints he dosed the food from the medicine chest; the mate falls ill too, and the cook demands to be treated as surgeon.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who has secretly caused the trouble only he can cure makes the most of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 132,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The mate haggles over the fee; the second officer falls ill too; the sick captain scolds the sick mate for being ill at all.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who swore he would never pay the person he scorned is forced by suffering to haggle with him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 133,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The cook treats and weakens all three officers; the captain and mate pay the other man to draw up their wills; they recover slowly as they reach port.",
|
||||
"predicament": "People who scorned two outsiders now depend on them completely, and pay for the privilege."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 134,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "Ashore, the cook tells the captain he ate something that disagreed with him, and leaves with a wave.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who got even with his tormentors leaves them knowing they were had."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 135,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "At a crowded family breakfast, a poor widow living with her sister's family gets a letter and reads it so slowly that the others nearly burst with impatience.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone given news that might change their life cannot take it in, while the people around them itch to know."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 136,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The widow fears the letter is a hoax; her brother-in-law thinks so too, until her sister reads it and rejoices.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Someone who has never had luck is told of a windfall and is afraid to believe it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 137,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The widow has inherited two thousand pounds from a former employer; the brother-in-law grumbles that nobody ever left him anything, and spreads the news through the town.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man sees a relative come into money and resents that luck never comes his way."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 138,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Local men suddenly befriend the brother-in-law; his wife points out that two old dealers are courting the heiress for her money.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man flattered by new friends is told they are really after a relative's money."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 139,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The brother-in-law watches the two suitors flatter the widow and tries to undercut them by announcing her age, nearly giving away his wife's.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man trying to expose flattering suitors trips over his own family's sensibilities."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 140,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The suitors outbid each other with compliments; the wife's temper frays, and the visitors are shown out with the door shut hard.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two rivals courting the same person keep topping each other's compliments while the family grows fed up."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 141,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The family, wanting to keep the money, fail to warn the widow; the slow dealer, losing ground to his glib rival, hatches a plan and enlists a small-time dealer.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A slow-talking man losing a contest to a glib rival looks for a trick instead of better words."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 142,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The dealer bribes an accomplice, who holds out for a bigger fee, to tell the rival in confidence that the widow has lost her fortune; the rival swallows it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man hires someone to spread a false rumour that will drive off his rival, and the hireling drives a hard bargain."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 143,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "With the rival gone, the dealer courts the widow alone, preaching the virtues of poverty, and loses seven games of draughts to her on purpose.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man courting for money pretends not to care about it and flatters the one he courts by letting her win."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 144,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "He blows her kisses and fusses over a bumped head, invites himself back, and walks home sure the money is his.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A schemer who thinks his deal is done walks away gloating too soon."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 145,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "He spreads the rumour of her ruin through the town, then proposes publicly 'now that she is poor', to look noble.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man makes a public show of selfless devotion, sure that it will cost him nothing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 146,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "She accepts; the family, touched, apologise for misjudging him, then mention a letter that arrived.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A schemer whose plan has worked is thanked for his goodness while the ground starts to shift under him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 147,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The lawyers' letter says a later will was found and she has nothing; the dealer, now engaged to a poor woman, is left alone with her to court.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who faked a disaster to win a prize learns the disaster is real, and he is bound to his promise."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 148,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "In an inn, men trade ghost stories; a sceptical old sailor mocks sailors' visions, then admits one uncanny experience on land.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A sceptic among believers is pressed to admit whether he has ever seen anything he could not explain."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 149,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "As a young man back from abroad, the narrator found his relatives away, took lodgings at a dull inn, and set out on a long country walk.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young man who arrived to find no one expecting him has to fill empty days in a strange place."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 150,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "He loses his way in the marshes as fog and night come down, and at last finds a road and hears footsteps.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A traveller lost in the dark and the cold must find shelter before night closes in."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 151,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "A countryman sets him on the road but warns him away from a lit house nearby, said to hide something monstrous; tired, he goes to it anyway.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A worn-out traveller must choose between a long walk on and a nearby shelter he has been warned against."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 152,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "A grim old woman and a huge old man answer; after a furtive exchange the man insists he stay for dinner, and he feels trapped.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A stranger taken in by odd hosts who seem keen to keep him wonders whether he has walked into a trap."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 153,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The host says his son will dine with them in the dark because of his eyes; he puts out the candles, and a strange voice speaks.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest must sit down in the dark with someone he cannot see, on hosts' terms he does not understand."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 154,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The host leaves him alone with the unseen son, and the guest thinks he sees wild eyes shining at him across the table.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest left alone with a stranger he cannot see grows afraid, and must decide whether to trust his hosts."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 155,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The screen falls, and firelight shows the son's ruined face; the father lights the candles and explains his son was disfigured in a fire.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A frightened man sees what he feared, and learns it is someone who was hurt and ashamed to be seen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 156,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "The guest apologises warmly; they celebrate the son's birthday until midnight, and the father toasts the children his son saved.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who shrank from someone must make amends, and finds they deserve his respect."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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