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title: Then Pei-Hang looked at his right foot, and saw that it was tied to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Pei-Hang looked at his right foot, and saw that it was tied to the girl’s by the same thin red cord. Who acts: Pei Hang, same thin red cord. 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 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 44

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Then Pei-Hang looked at his right foot, and saw that it was tied to the girl’s by the same thin red cord.

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**Who acts:** Pei Hang, same thin red cord · **What happens:** look, see, tie · **To what, where:** foot · **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 Hang, same thin red cord), 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:pg65965:25:45
# text = Then Pei-Hang looked at his right foot, and saw that it was tied to the girl’s by the same thin red cord.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Pei Hang |  |  |  | then | at Hang's right foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Pei Hang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tie** | past · passive | the same thin red cord | foot |  |  |  | to the girl | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to girl=Co-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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