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title: Her mother removed the cork and sprinkled the contents of the phial… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother removed the cork and sprinkled the contents of the phial over the bright red feathers, and there before them stood the handsome Prince Varna. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 48

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Her mother removed the cork and sprinkled the contents of the phial over the bright red feathers, and there before them stood the handsome Prince Varna.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** remove, sprinkle, stand · **To what, where:** cork, contents, bright red feathers, handsome Varna

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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 (mother), 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:pg65965:19:48
# text = Her mother removed the cork and sprinkled the contents of the phial over the bright red feathers, and there before them stood the handsome Prince Varna.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	phial	phial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Varna	Varna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past | Zaïda's mother | the cork |  | there |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Theme |
| 2 | **sprinkle** | past | Zaïda's mother *not said here* | the contents of the phial |  | the bright red feathers |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme over feather=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past | mother | the handsome Varna  Prince |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer varna=Stimulus |

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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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