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title: But she was not to be found; the window was open and without anybody… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was not to be found; the window was open and without anybody seeing her go, she had flown away to her beloved forest. Who acts: window, anybody, maid. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 177

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But she was not to be found; the window was open and without anybody seeing her go, she had flown away to her beloved forest.

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**Who acts:** window, anybody, maid · **What happens:** not find, be, see, go, fly away · **To what, where:** maid

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, anybody, maid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:1:185
# text = But she was not to be found; the window was open and without anybody seeing her go, she had flown away to her beloved forest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | past · passive |  | maid |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | the window |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | anybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | anybody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | maid *nmod:poss* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fly away** | past · perfect | maid |  |  |  |  | to maid's beloved forest *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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