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title: This was done, and a great fire was made of all that was collected,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This was done, and a great fire was made of all that was collected, and then everyone was ordered to fill a bag full of the ashes. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 4

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This was done, and a great fire was made of all that was collected, and then everyone was ordered to fill a bag full of the ashes.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** do, make, collect, order, fill · **To what, where:** This, great fire, everyone, bag

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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 (everyone), 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:pg65965:20:4
# text = This was done, and a great fire was made of all that was collected, and then everyone was ordered to fill a bag full of the ashes.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | a great fire |  |  |  | of all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **collect** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **order** | past · passive |  | everyone |  |  | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | a bag |  |  |  | full *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |

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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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