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title: For a long time they lived pleasantly together; but one day the goat… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time they lived pleasantly together; but one day the goat failed to be at their meeting-place, and this caused them great anxiety. Who acts: weasel, goat, this. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependenc
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 114

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For a long time they lived pleasantly together; but one day the goat failed to be at their meeting-place, and this caused them great anxiety.

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**Who acts:** weasel, goat, this · **What happens:** live, fail, be, cause · **To what, where:** meeting place, weasel

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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 (weasel, goat, this), 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:pg65965:21:115
# text = For a long time they lived pleasantly together; but one day the goat failed to be at their meeting-place, and this caused them great anxiety.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | weasel |  |  |  | time | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fail** | past | the goat |  |  |  | day |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the goat *not said here* |  |  | weasel's meeting place |  | weasel *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cause** | past | this | weasel |  |  |  | great anxiety *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer they=Theme anxiety=Eventuality |

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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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