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title: He immediately lighted a lamp and went down the stairs into a room,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He immediately lighted a lamp and went down the stairs into a room, the floor whereof was laid with tiles of chinaware, while the roof and walls were of crystal. Who acts: dream, roof. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 8

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He immediately lighted a lamp and went down the stairs into a room, the floor whereof was laid with tiles of chinaware, while the roof and walls were of crystal.

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**Who acts:** dream, roof · **What happens:** light, go down, lay, be · **To what, where:** lamp, stairs, room

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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 (dream, roof), 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:pg65965:17:8
# text = He immediately lighted a lamp and went down the stairs into a room, the floor whereof was laid with tiles of chinaware, while the roof and walls were of crystal.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	chinaware	chinaware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **light** | participle | dream | a lamp |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |
| 2 | **go down** | past | dream *not said here* | the stairs |  | a room  the floor |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with tiles of chinaware; whereof *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **is** | past | the roof and walls |  |  |  |  | of crystal | tree rules |

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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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