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title: “It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and cover… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and covered with spikes like porcupines.” Who acts: laugh. 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 clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 109

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“It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and covered with spikes like porcupines.”

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**Who acts:** laugh · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** mile

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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 (laugh), 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:pg65965:25:110
# text = “It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and covered with spikes like porcupines.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | laugh | a mile and the fish in mile |  |  |  | the fish in mile *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | six yards *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with spikes like porcupines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spike=Theme |

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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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