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title: When the Genii saw this they stopped roaring, so glad were they to s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Genii saw this they stopped roaring, so glad were they to see the Black River guarding them once more from the outer world. Who acts: Genii, fishes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 39

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When the Genii saw this they stopped roaring, so glad were they to see the Black River guarding them once more from the outer world.

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**Who acts:** Genii, fishes · **What happens:** see, stop, roar, guard · **To what, where:** this, Black River, fishes

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Genii, fishes), 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:pg65965:26:39
# text = When the Genii saw this they stopped roaring, so glad were they to see the Black River guarding them once more from the outer world.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Genii | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | past | fishes *= fish* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | fishes *= fish* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | fishes *= fish* | the Black River |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus |
| 5 | **guard** | gerund | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | fishes *= fish* |  |  |  | from the outer world | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from world=Theme |

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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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