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title: Also she was particular in having his head shaved in just the right… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Also she was particular in having his head shaved in just the right way, with a tuft sticking straight up in the luckiest place. Who acts: pigtail, head, tuft. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 21

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Also she was particular in having his head shaved in just the right way, with a tuft sticking straight up in the luckiest place.

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**Who acts:** pigtail, head, tuft · **What happens:** be, have, shave, stick · **To what, where:** head, right way, luckiest place

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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 (pigtail, head, tuft), 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:pg65965:25:22
# text = Also she was particular in having his head shaved in just the right way, with a tuft sticking straight up in the luckiest place.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | pigtail |  |  |  |  | a tuft *conj*; particular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | pigtail *not said here* | Hang's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shave** | participle | Hang's head *not said here* |  |  | the right way |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stick** | gerund | a tuft *not said here* |  |  | the luckiest place |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination |

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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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