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title: But, of course, it was nothing of the kind; it was only the sky-drag… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But, of course, it was nothing of the kind; it was only the sky-dragon putting out the fire Wang Chih had kindled. Who acts: storm, sky dragon, Wang. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 40

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But, of course, it was nothing of the kind; it was only the sky-dragon putting out the fire Wang Chih had kindled.

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**Who acts:** storm, sky dragon, Wang · **What happens:** be, put out, kindle · **To what, where:** sky dragon, fire

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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 (storm, sky dragon, Wang), 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:pg65965:23:40
# text = But, of course, it was nothing of the kind; it was only the sky-dragon putting out the fire Wang Chih had kindled.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
20	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	Chih	Chih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | storm |  |  |  |  | of nothing; of the kind | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | storm | the sky dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put out** | gerund | the sky dragon *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |
| 4 | **kindle** | past · perfect | Wang |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «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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