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title: This pleased Juan wonderfully, both because he was curious to see th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This pleased Juan wonderfully, both because he was curious to see the goat, and because he would not have to chop the wood. Who acts: pleased Juan, JUAN. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 35

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This pleased Juan wonderfully, both because he was curious to see the goat, and because he would not have to chop the wood.

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**Who acts:** pleased Juan, JUAN · **What happens:** be, see, not have, chop · **To what, where:** goat, wood

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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 (pleased Juan, JUAN), 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:pg65965:22:36
# text = This pleased Juan wonderfully, both because he was curious to see the goat, and because he would not have to chop the wood.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | pleased Juan  This |  |  |  |  | JUAN *nsubj*; curious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | pleased Juan  This *not said here* | the goat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **have** | would | JUAN |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **chop** | to-infinitive | JUAN *not said here* | the wood |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |

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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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