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title: “Then come with me,” said the fish; and turning round he swam up-str… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then come with me,” said the fish; and turning round he swam up-stream, going very slowly so that Sin should not lose sight of him. Who acts: fish, Sin. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 12

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“Then come with me,” said the fish; and turning round he swam up-stream, going very slowly so that Sin should not lose sight of him.

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**Who acts:** fish, Sin · **What happens:** come, say, turn round, swim, go, not lose · **To what, where:** stream, sight, fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, Sin), 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:pg65965:16:12
# text = “Then come with me,” said the fish; and turning round he swam up-stream, going very slowly so that Sin should not lose sight of him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
30	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | with the fish *= fish* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **turn round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **swim** | past | fish | stream |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory |
| 5 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **lose** | should | Sin | sight of fish |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | fish |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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