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title: She called to her daughter to fill their best goblet with fresh spri… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: She called to her daughter to fill their best goblet with fresh spring water, and bring it out to the stranger. Who acts: Ying. 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 59

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She called to her daughter to fill their best goblet with fresh spring water, and bring it out to the stranger.

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**Who acts:** Ying · **What happens:** call, fill, bring out · **To what, where:** daughter, best goblet, goblet · **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 (Ying), 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:pg65965:25:60
# text = She called to her daughter to fill their best goblet with fresh spring water, and bring it out to the stranger.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Ying |  | Ying's daughter |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Ying *not said here* | women's best goblet |  |  |  | with fresh spring water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **bring out** | infinitive | Ying *not said here* | goblet |  |  |  | to the stranger | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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