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title: So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began the lad’s heart leaped up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world. Who acts: child, twelfth year, lif
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 53

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So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began the lad’s heart leaped up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world.

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**Who acts:** child, twelfth year, life · **What happens:** live, play, talk, begin, leap up, love · **To what, where:** heart, child, palace prison

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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 (child, twelfth year, life), 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:pg65965:20:54
# text = So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began the lad’s heart leaped up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
51	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the child |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with child's colt | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colt=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to child's parrot | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parrot=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the twelfth year | the lad's heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leap up** | participle | the twelfth year *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with desire for change | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **love** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **listen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the sounds of life | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme |
| 8 | **come** | past | life |  | child | child's palace prison from the outside world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |

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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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