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title: But the other sixty-nine maidens, being jealous, laughed scornfully… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the other sixty-nine maidens, being jealous, laughed scornfully at her, saying: “Not so fast, oh gallant warrior! Who acts: other nine maidens. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 11

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But the other sixty-nine maidens, being jealous, laughed scornfully at her, saying: “Not so fast, oh gallant warrior!

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**Who acts:** other nine maidens · **What happens:** be, laugh, say · **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 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other nine maidens), 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:pg65965:21:11
# text = But the other sixty-nine maidens, being jealous, laughed scornfully at her, saying: “Not so fast, oh gallant warrior!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
25	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | the other nine maidens |  |  |  |  | at straightway; scornfully *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the other nine maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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