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description: He opened the bottle, and mixed the contents carefully with a few drops of the elixir of life, which was clear as crystal, and of which each drop shone like a diamond as he poured it in. Who acts: Hare, elixir. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 65

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He opened the bottle, and mixed the contents carefully with a few drops of the elixir of life, which was clear as crystal, and of which each drop shone like a diamond as he poured it in.

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**Who acts:** Hare, elixir · **What happens:** open, mix, be, shine, pour in · **To what, where:** bottle, contents, drop

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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 (Hare, elixir), 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:pg65965:23:65
# text = He opened the bottle, and mixed the contents carefully with a few drops of the elixir of life, which was clear as crystal, and of which each drop shone like a diamond as he poured it in.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	elixir	elixir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	obj	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Hare | the bottle |  |  |  | which  each drop *obj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme which=Destination |
| 2 | **mix** | past | Hare *not said here* | the contents |  |  |  | with a few drops of the elixir of life; carefully *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent contents=Patient with drop=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the elixir of life |  |  |  |  | as crystal; clear *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | participle |  | each drop *not said here* |  |  |  | like a diamond | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pour in** | past | Hare | bottle |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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