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title: Great was the joy of this meeting, and when they were somewhat compo… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Great was the joy of this meeting, and when they were somewhat composed the ladies asked the prince to tell them of his adventures. Who acts: Great joy, prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 49

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Great was the joy of this meeting, and when they were somewhat composed the ladies asked the prince to tell them of his adventures.

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**Who acts:** Great joy, prince · **What happens:** be, compose, ask, tell, adventure · **To what, where:** Great joy, mother, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Great joy, prince), 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:pg65965:19:49
# text = Great was the joy of this meeting, and when they were somewhat composed the ladies asked the prince to tell them of his adventures.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	orphan	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Great joy |  |  |  | of this meeting | tree rules |
| 2 | **compose** | past · passive |  | mother |  |  |  | the ladies *obj*; somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Great joy |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Great joy *not said here* |  | mother |  |  | of prince's adventures | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 5 | **adventure** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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