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title: At the entrance to the bridge stood a company of very tall genii, wh… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At the entrance to the bridge stood a company of very tall genii, who guarded the portals of the castle with great clubs of steel. Who acts: tall genii. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 109

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At the entrance to the bridge stood a company of very tall genii, who guarded the portals of the castle with great clubs of steel.

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**Who acts:** tall genii · **What happens:** stand, guard · **To what, where:** company, entrance, portals

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall genii), 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:pg65965:17:109
# text = At the entrance to the bridge stood a company of very tall genii, who guarded the portals of the castle with great clubs of steel.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	portals	portal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a company of tall genii |  | the entrance to the bridge |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent company=Theme at entrance=Destination |
| 2 | **guard** | past | tall genii | the portals of the castle with great clubs of steel |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portal=Beneficiary |

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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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