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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 120

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As this would take some time, it was necessary that the weasel get to work as soon as possible, because the hunter might return to his net at any minute.

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**Who acts:** this, weasel, hunter · **What happens:** take, be, get, work, return

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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 (this, weasel, hunter), 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:pg65965:21:121
# text = As this would take some time, it was necessary that the weasel get to work as soon as possible, because the hunter might return to his net at any minute.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | this |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | the weasel |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | the weasel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **return** | might | the hunter |  |  |  | minute | to goat's net *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to net=Result |

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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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