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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 8

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She immediately expressed her joy at seeing them, and thanked them all together, but afterwards Prince Ahmed in particular.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** express, see, thank, joy · **To what, where:** joy, women

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg65965:12:8
# text = She immediately expressed her joy at seeing them, and thanked them all together, but afterwards Prince Ahmed in particular.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | princess | princess's joy |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | princess *not said here* | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | princess *not said here* |  | women *= woman* |  |  | together *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **joy** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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

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