--- title: He then dropped one of his white seeds into the mortar, and it at on… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He then dropped one of his white seeds into the mortar, and it at once became so large that it covered the whole grass plot under the peach tree, and it was filled to the brim with glittering precious stones. Who acts: Hang, mortar. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Pen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/50/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/) / 50 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 50 He then dropped one of his white seeds into the mortar, and it at once became so large that it covered the whole grass plot under the peach tree, and it was filled to the brim with glittering precious stones. **Who acts:** Hang, mortar · **What happens:** drop, become, cover, fill, glitter · **To what, where:** one, mortar, whole grass plot, peach tree, precious stones 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 (Hang, mortar), 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:pg65965:26:50 # text = He then dropped one of his white seeds into the mortar, and it at once became so large that it covered the whole grass plot under the peach tree, and it was filled to the brim with glittering precious stones. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 at at SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 17 advmod _ _ 17 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 plot plot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 peach peach NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 brim brim NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 with with SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 glittering glitter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 41 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | past | Hang | one of Hang's white seeds | | the mortar | then | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme into mortar=Destination | | 2 | **become** | past | mortar | | | | | large, once *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cover** | past | mortar | the whole grass plot | | the peach tree | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plot=Destination | | 4 | **fill** | past · passive | | mortar | | | | to the brim | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **glitter** | gerund | | precious stones | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/)