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title: The experiment succeeded; and the prince, after he had counted out t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The experiment succeeded; and the prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, received the apple. Who acts: experiment. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 51

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The experiment succeeded; and the prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, received the apple.

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**Who acts:** experiment · **What happens:** succeed, count out, receive · **To what, where:** prince, forty purses, apple

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experiment), 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:pg65965:11:51
# text = The experiment succeeded; and the prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, received the apple.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | the experiment | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count out** | past · perfect | experiment | forty purses |  |  |  | to the crier | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to crier=Experiencer |
| 3 | **receive** | past |  | the apple |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |

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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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