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title: The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it w… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it was too large and too heavy to be moved, and it was certainly of no use to Yun-Ying’s mother, because it was too big for her to pound her magic drugs in, even if she could get inside it, which she couldn’t. Who acts: pestle, tree, mo
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 57

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The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it was too large and too heavy to be moved, and it was certainly of no use to Yun-Ying’s mother, because it was too big for her to pound her magic drugs in, even if she could get inside it, which she couldn’t.

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**Who acts:** pestle, tree, mother · **What happens:** stand, be, move, get · **To what, where:** peach tree, tree

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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 (pestle, tree, mother), 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:pg65965:26:57
# text = The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it was too large and too heavy to be moved, and it was certainly of no use to Yun-Ying’s mother, because it was too big for her to pound her magic drugs in, even if she could get inside it, which she couldn’t.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	Yun	Yun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	too	too	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	advcl	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
51	in	in	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	even	even	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
58	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
62	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the pestle of jade and mortar |  |  | the peach tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | to-infinitive · passive | tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» |
| 5 | **is** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | of no use; to Yun Ying's mother; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | for mother; pound *advcl*; mother's magic drugs *nsubj*; big *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | mother |  |  | tree |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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