--- title: After crossing the first brook, he threw a white seed into it, and t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: After crossing the first brook, he threw a white seed into it, and turned it into an inky black waste of water a mile wide, full of fishes six yards long, and every fish covered with spikes. Who acts: Pei. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei), 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:pg65965:26:38 # text = After crossing the first brook, he threw a white seed into it, and turned it into an inky black waste of water a mile wide, full of fishes six yards long, and every fish covered with spikes. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 brook brook NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 inky inky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | Pei *not said here* | the first brook | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Patient | | 2 | **throw** | past | Pei | a white seed | | journey | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer seed=Theme into it=Result | | 3 | **turn** | past | Pei *not said here* | journey | | a inky black waste of water a mile | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into waste=Trajectory | | 4 | **cover** | participle · passive | | every fish | | | | with spikes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with spike=Theme | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/39/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/)