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title: Fortunately, the sea lay right underneath the dragon’s cave, or he w… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately, the sea lay right underneath the dragon’s cave, or he would have done some nice mischief. Who acts: sea. 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 36

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Fortunately, the sea lay right underneath the dragon’s cave, or he would have done some nice mischief.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** lie, do · **To what, where:** cave, nice mischief

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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 (sea), 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:pg65965:23:36
# text = Fortunately, the sea lay right underneath the dragon’s cave, or he would have done some nice mischief.
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the sea |  |  | the dragon's cave |  | fortunately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath cave=Location |
| 2 | **do** | would · perfect | sea | some nice mischief |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |

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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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