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title: Stretched right across it, like a bridge, was a row of huge alligato… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Stretched right across it, like a bridge, was a row of huge alligators, each of which had its mouth wide open. Who acts: bridge, each. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 102

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Stretched right across it, like a bridge, was a row of huge alligators, each of which had its mouth wide open.

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**Who acts:** bridge, each · **What happens:** stretch, be, have · **To what, where:** row, mouth

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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 (bridge, each), 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:pg65965:25:103
# text = Stretched right across it, like a bridge, was a row of huge alligators, each of which had its mouth wide open.
1	Stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	alligators	alligator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | participle | a bridge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | across mile; right *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a bridge | a row |  |  |  | of huge alligators | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | each | mile's mouth |  |  |  | a row *nsubj*; open *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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