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title: Each pebble on the margin of the lake was a precious stone, and Pei-… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Each pebble on the margin of the lake was a precious stone, and Pei-Hang wanted to go down and fill his pockets with them. Who acts: pebble, Pei Hang. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 8

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Each pebble on the margin of the lake was a precious stone, and Pei-Hang wanted to go down and fill his pockets with them.

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**Who acts:** pebble, Pei Hang · **What happens:** be, want, go down, fill · **To what, where:** precious stone, pockets

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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 (pebble, Pei Hang), 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:pg65965:26:8
# text = Each pebble on the margin of the lake was a precious stone, and Pei-Hang wanted to go down and fill his pockets with them.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | each pebble on the margin of the lake | a precious stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | Pei Hang |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pei Hang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fill** | infinitive | Pei Hang *not said here* | Hang's pockets |  |  |  | with pockets *= pocket* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with they=Instrument |

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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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