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title: Then came the weasel, whose strong teeth soon set the tortoise at li… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the weasel, whose strong teeth soon set the tortoise at liberty, and together they hid themselves in a bush. Who acts: weasel, teeth. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 20

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Then came the weasel, whose strong teeth soon set the tortoise at liberty, and together they hid themselves in a bush.

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**Who acts:** weasel, teeth · **What happens:** come, set, hide · **To what, where:** tortoise, liberty, teeth, bush

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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 (weasel, teeth), 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:pg65965:22:20
# text = Then came the weasel, whose strong teeth soon set the tortoise at liberty, and together they hid themselves in a bush.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | past | the weasel and the weasel and the weasel's strong teeth's strong teeth | the tortoise |  | liberty |  | soon *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme at liberty=Destination |
| 3 | **hide** | past | teeth *= tooth* | teeth *= tooth* |  | a bush |  | together *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in bush=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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