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description: The moment he had done so the window grew larger, and he saw some steps leading from it down into the village street. Who acts: Wang, moment, steps. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 68

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The moment he had done so the window grew larger, and he saw some steps leading from it down into the village street.

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**Who acts:** Wang, moment, steps · **What happens:** do, grow, see, lead · **To what, where:** moment, steps, bottle

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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 (Wang, moment, steps), 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:pg65965:23:68
# text = The moment he had done so the window grew larger, and he saw some steps leading from it down into the village street.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Wang | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  | so the window | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the moment |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Wang | some steps |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund | some steps *not said here* |  |  | bottle |  | down *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from it=Destination |

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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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