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title: At length they reached a spot where a huge carp lay, surrounded by a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they reached a spot where a huge carp lay, surrounded by attendant fishes. Who acts: people, attendant fishes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 13

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At length they reached a spot where a huge carp lay, surrounded by attendant fishes.

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**Who acts:** people, attendant fishes · **What happens:** reach, surround · **To what, where:** spot, length, huge carp lay

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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 (people, attendant fishes), 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:pg65965:16:13
# text = At length they reached a spot where a huge carp lay, surrounded by attendant fishes.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | people | a spot |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent spot=Theme at length=Asset |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive | attendant fishes | a huge carp lay |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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