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title: One day when they were out together the prince passed the house wher… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when they were out together the prince passed the house where Varna’s former governess and her daughter lived. Who acts: confidence, prince, former governess. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 32

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One day when they were out together the prince passed the house where Varna’s former governess and her daughter lived.

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**Who acts:** confidence, prince, former governess · **What happens:** be, pass, live · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confidence, prince, former governess), 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:pg65965:19:32
# text = One day when they were out together the prince passed the house where Varna’s former governess and her daughter lived.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
14	Varna	Varna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	governess	governess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | confidence |  |  |  |  | out, together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the prince | the house |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory |
| 3 | **live** | past | Varna's former governess and governess's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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