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title: But Chang took no more notice of the strange noises the fish made, a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 53

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But Chang took no more notice of the strange noises the fish made, and thought only of the present he would receive for bringing home such a fine fish.

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**Who acts:** Chang, strange · **What happens:** take, noise, make, think, receive, bring · **To what, where:** more notice, fish, present, fine fish

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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 (Chang, strange), 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:pg65965:16:53
# text = But Chang took no more notice of the strange noises the fish made, and thought only of the present he would receive for bringing home such a fine fish.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Chang	Chang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
10	noises	noise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Chang | more notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **noise** | present | the strange | the fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Chang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the present *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **receive** | would | Chang | the present *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | gerund | Chang *not said here* |  | such fine fish |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination |

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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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