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title: She had a lantern in the shape of a fish, painted red and black and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a lantern in the shape of a fish, painted red and black and yellow, and Han Chung had got a big round one, all bright crimson, to carry in the procession; and, besides that, there were two large lanterns to be hung outside the cottage door as soon as it grew dark. Who acts: Ho, Han, two larg
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 79

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She had a lantern in the shape of a fish, painted red and black and yellow, and Han Chung had got a big round one, all bright crimson, to carry in the procession; and, besides that, there were two large lanterns to be hung outside the cottage door as soon as it grew dark.

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**Who acts:** Ho, Han, two large lanterns, door · **What happens:** have, paint, get, carry, be, hang · **To what, where:** lantern, shape, fish, big round one, procession, cottage door

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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 (Ho, Han, two large lanterns, door), 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:pg65965:22:81
# text = She had a lantern in the shape of a fish, painted red and black and yellow, and Han Chung had got a big round one, all bright crimson, to carry in the procession; and, besides that, there were two large lanterns to be hung outside the cottage door as soon as it grew dark.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	Chung	Chung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
46	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
47	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	_
52	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	as	as	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
58	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
61	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Ho | a lantern |  | the shape of a fish |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Patient |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | a fish *not said here* |  |  |  | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | Han | a big round one and all bright crimson |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Han *not said here* |  |  | the procession |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in procession=Location |
| 5 | **be** | past | two large lanterns |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hang** | to-infinitive · passive | two large lanterns *not said here* |  |  | the cottage door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: outside door=Location |
| 7 | **grow** | past | door |  |  |  |  | dark, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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