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title: All went well with the boy on the way home until he came to the fenc… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: All went well with the boy on the way home until he came to the fence surrounding the stone in the form of a man, and there he was detained and compelled to remain four months. Who acts: Balatama, fence. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Open
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 79

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All went well with the boy on the way home until he came to the fence surrounding the stone in the form of a man, and there he was detained and compelled to remain four months.

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**Who acts:** Balatama, fence · **What happens:** go, come, surround, detain, compel, remain · **To what, where:** way, fence, stone, Balatama, man

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balatama, fence), 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:pg65965:24:81
# text = All went well with the boy on the way home until he came to the fence surrounding the stone in the form of a man, and there he was detained and compelled to remain four months.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the way |  | with the boy; well *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with boy=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | past | Balatama |  |  | the fence |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **surround** | gerund | the fence *not said here* | the stone |  |  |  | in the form of a man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Destination in form=Theme |
| 4 | **detain** | past · passive |  | Balatama |  | there |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **compel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 6 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | a man |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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