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title: Set out early to-morrow morning, and when you have passed the gate t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Set out early to-morrow morning, and when you have passed the gate throw before you the ball of thread, which will roll till it reaches the gates of the castle. Who acts: you, ball, throw. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, w
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

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Set out early to-morrow morning, and when you have passed the gate throw before you the ball of thread, which will roll till it reaches the gates of the castle.

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**Who acts:** you, ball, throw · **What happens:** set out, pass, roll, reach · **To what, where:** gate throw, gates

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ball, throw), 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:pg65965:14:65
# text = Set out early to-morrow morning, and when you have passed the gate throw before you the ball of thread, which will roll till it reaches the gates of the castle.
1	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	throw	throw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | present · perfect | you | the gate throw |  |  | before you | the ball of thread *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent throw=Recipient ball=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | future | the ball of thread |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | present | throw | the gates of the castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=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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