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title: And sometimes, for a treat, she made him some bean soup, or gave him… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And sometimes, for a treat, she made him some bean soup, or gave him a little dish of fried pork. Who acts: mother, some. 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 every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 71

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And sometimes, for a treat, she made him some bean soup, or gave him a little dish of fried pork.

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**Who acts:** mother, some · **What happens:** make, bean, give, fry · **To what, where:** Wang, soup, little dish

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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 (mother, some), 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:pg65965:22:73
# text = And sometimes, for a treat, she made him some bean soup, or gave him a little dish of fried pork.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bean	bean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | mother | Wang |  |  |  | for a treat; sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent he=Product for treat=Asset |
| 2 | **bean** | present | some | soup |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | mother *not said here* | a little dish of fried pork | Wang |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dish=Theme |
| 4 | **fry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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