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title: Quickly was delight turned into pain as the hook, which was hidden i… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Quickly was delight turned into pain as the hook, which was hidden in the worm, pierced the roof of his mouth. Who acts: worm. 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 40

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Quickly was delight turned into pain as the hook, which was hidden in the worm, pierced the roof of his mouth.

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**Who acts:** worm · **What happens:** turn, hide, pierce · **To what, where:** pain, hook, roof

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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 (worm), 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:pg65965:16:40
# text = Quickly was delight turned into pain as the hook, which was hidden in the worm, pierced the roof of his mouth.
1	Quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	delight	delight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · passive |  |  |  | pain |  | as the hook; delight, quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into pain=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hide** | past · passive |  | the hook |  |  |  | in the worm | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in worm=Location |
| 3 | **pierce** | participle | the worm *not said here* | the roof of Sin's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=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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