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title: There were strange faces everywhere; and although when evening came… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: There were strange faces everywhere; and although when evening came the Feast of Lanterns was being held once more, there was no Ho-Seen-Ko carrying her red and yellow fish, or Han Chung with his flaming red ball. Who acts: strange faces, evening, Seen Ko. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 104

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There were strange faces everywhere; and although when evening came the Feast of Lanterns was being held once more, there was no Ho-Seen-Ko carrying her red and yellow fish, or Han Chung with his flaming red ball.

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**Who acts:** strange faces, evening, Seen Ko · **What happens:** be, come, hold, carry, flame · **To what, where:** Feast, red fish

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange faces, evening, Seen Ko), 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:pg65965:22:106
# text = There were strange faces everywhere; and although when evening came the Feast of Lanterns was being held once more, there was no Ho-Seen-Ko carrying her red and yellow fish, or Han Chung with his flaming red ball.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
25	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Seen	Seen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Chung	Chung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	amod	_	_
43	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | strange faces |  |  | there |  | everywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the Feast of Lanterns |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | past · progressive | no Seen Ko | Ko's red fish |  |  |  | with Wang's flaming red ball; Han Chung *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 5 | **flame** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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