--- title: Pei-Hang was not a bad match, for his parents were well-off, and he… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Pei-Hang was not a bad match, for his parents were well-off, and he was their only child; but Yun-Ying was a very pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang-ngan was anxious to marry her. Who acts: Pei, parents, Yun, pretty girl. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingf --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/) / 69 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 69 Pei-Hang was not a bad match, for his parents were well-off, and he was their only child; but Yun-Ying was a very pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang-ngan was anxious to marry her. **Who acts:** Pei, parents, Yun, pretty girl · **What happens:** not be, be, marry · **To what, where:** bad match, only child, pretty girl, Ying 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, parents, Yun, pretty girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:25:70 # text = Pei-Hang was not a bad match, for his parents were well-off, and he was their only child; but Yun-Ying was a very pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang-ngan was anxious to marry her. 1 Pei Pei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Hang Hang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 off off ADV RB _ 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 Yun Yun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Ying Ying PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mandarin mandarin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 Chang Chang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ngan ngan NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl:relcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | Pei | a bad match and parents's only child | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Pei's parents | | | | | off, well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | Pei | parents's only child | | | | parents *= parent* *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | Yun | a pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang ngan | | | | a mandarin of Chang ngan *conj* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | a pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang ngan | a bad match and parents's only child *not said here* | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **marry** | to-infinitive | a pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang ngan *not said here* | Ying | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/70/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/)