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title: The master had a daughter who was attending school at a convent some… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The master had a daughter who was attending school at a convent some distance from home, and very often he sent the dog and the cat with presents to the girl. Who acts: master, daughter. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, wit
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 93

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The master had a daughter who was attending school at a convent some distance from home, and very often he sent the dog and the cat with presents to the girl.

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**Who acts:** master, daughter · **What happens:** have, attend, send · **To what, where:** daughter, school, convent, dog, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, daughter), 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:pg65965:18:95
# text = The master had a daughter who was attending school at a convent some distance from home, and very often he sent the dog and the cat with presents to the girl.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the master | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **attend** | past · progressive | a daughter | school |  | a convent |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal |
| 3 | **send** | past | master | the dog and the cat with presents | the girl |  |  | often *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme to girl=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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