--- title: Then the Prince turned towards the burning forest, and lo! the voice… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Prince turned towards the burning forest, and lo! the voice was the voice of a tiny cricket. Who acts: Prince, voice. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/) / 106 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 106 Then the Prince turned towards the burning forest, and lo! the voice was the voice of a tiny cricket. **Who acts:** Prince, voice · **What happens:** turn, burn, be · **To what, where:** burning forest, voice This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:20:107 # text = Then the Prince turned towards the burning forest, and lo! the voice was the voice of a tiny cricket. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 lo lo INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | the Prince | | | the burning forest | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards forest=Trajectory | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | the voice | the voice | | | | of a tiny cricket | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/107/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/)