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title: They stimulate the youthful imagination and provide a good foundatio… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: They stimulate the youthful imagination and provide a good foundation for the further development of the mind. Who acts: Tales. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 99

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They stimulate the youthful imagination and provide a good foundation for the further development of the mind.

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**Who acts:** Tales · **What happens:** stimulate, provide, develop · **To what, where:** youthful imagination, good foundation, mind

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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 (Tales), 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:pg65965:1:105
# text = They stimulate the youthful imagination and provide a good foundation for the further development of the mind.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stimulate	stimulate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stimulate** | present | Tales *= tale* | the youthful imagination |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus imagination=Experiencer |
| 2 | **provide** | infinitive | Tales *= tale* *not said here* | a good foundation |  |  |  | for the further development of the mind | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition foundation=Theme for development=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **develop** |  |  | the mind |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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