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title: Then Pei-Hang showed him the white seeds in the other box, and said:… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Pei-Hang showed him the white seeds in the other box, and said: “With these I can make them as large as they were before, on my way back, so it is all right. Who acts: Pei, these, seeds, way. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, pa
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 106

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Then Pei-Hang showed him the white seeds in the other box, and said: “With these I can make them as large as they were before, on my way back, so it is all right.

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**Who acts:** Pei, these, seeds, way · **What happens:** show, say, make, be · **To what, where:** white seeds, Genii, other box, seeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pei, these, seeds, way), 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:pg65965:25:107
# text = Then Pei-Hang showed him the white seeds in the other box, and said: “With these I can make them as large as they were before, on my way back, so it is all right.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	With	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	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 | **show** | past | Pei | the white seeds | Genii | the other box | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seed=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pei *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | can | these | seeds *= seed* |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; my way *conj*; large *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | seeds *= seed* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | way |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |

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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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