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title: He put down the pestle and mortar and kissed Yun-Ying’s tears away. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He put down the pestle and mortar and kissed Yun-Ying’s tears away. Who acts: Pei. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 46

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He put down the pestle and mortar and kissed Yun-Ying’s tears away.

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**Who acts:** Pei · **What happens:** put down, kiss · **To what, where:** pestle, tears

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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 (Pei), 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:pg65965:26:46
# text = He put down the pestle and mortar and kissed Yun-Ying’s tears away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	Yun	Yun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | Pei | the pestle and mortar |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pestle=Goal |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | Pei *not said here* | Yun  Ying's tears |  |  |  | away *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Co-Agent |

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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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