--- title: He sat there some time longer, and noticed that as the old men frown… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He sat there some time longer, and noticed that as the old men frowned over the chessboard, their beards grew longer and longer, until they swept the floor of the cave, and even found their way out of the door. Who acts: Wang, beards. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, beards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:22:95 # text = He sat there some time longer, and noticed that as the old men frowned over the chessboard, their beards grew longer and longer, until they swept the floor of the cave, and even found their way out of the door. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 15 frowned frown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 chessboard chessboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 beards beard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 23 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 swept sweep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 out out ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Wang | | | there | time | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **notice** | past | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **frown** | participle | | the old men *not said here* | | the chessboard | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | past | workers's beards | | | | | as the old men; long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sweep** | past | beards *= beard* | the floor of the cave | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | | 6 | **find** | past | | workers's way | | the door | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/94/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/)