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title: This river was so wide that Pei-Hang was really surprised when, on t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This river was so wide that Pei-Hang was really surprised when, on throwing another of the red seeds into it, there lay before him a tiny brook, in the bottom of which some eels were wriggling. Who acts: river, Pei, eels. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 100

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This river was so wide that Pei-Hang was really surprised when, on throwing another of the red seeds into it, there lay before him a tiny brook, in the bottom of which some eels were wriggling.

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**Who acts:** river, Pei, eels · **What happens:** be, throw, lay, wriggle · **To what, where:** another, head, tiny brook, bottom

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, Pei, eels), 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:pg65965:25:101
# text = This river was so wide that Pei-Hang was really surprised when, on throwing another of the red seeds into it, there lay before him a tiny brook, in the bottom of which some eels were wriggling.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
38	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this river |  |  |  |  | wide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Pei |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | gerund | Pei *not said here* | another of the red seeds |  | head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer another=Theme into it=Result |
| 4 | **lay** | present | this river *not said here* | a tiny brook |  | the bottom; there | before Pei |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
| 5 | **wriggle** | past · progressive | some eels |  |  |  |  | of the bottom | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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