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title: Soon the water was boiling hot and the brother-in-law laughed and sa… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the water was boiling hot and the brother-in-law laughed and said: Who acts: water, law. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 108

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Soon the water was boiling hot and the brother-in-law laughed and said:

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**Who acts:** water, law · **What happens:** boil, laugh, say · **To what, where:** brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, law), 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:pg65965:23:109
# text = Soon the water was boiling hot and the brother-in-law laughed and said:
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past · progressive | the water |  |  |  |  | hot, soon *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | law | the brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | law *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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