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description: But the garden was so perfect and so admirably kept that it was impossible there should be no master gardener to keep this domain in such wonderful order. Who acts: garden. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 93

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But the garden was so perfect and so admirably kept that it was impossible there should be no master gardener to keep this domain in such wonderful order.

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**Who acts:** garden · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** master gardener, domain, such wonderful order

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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 (garden), 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:pg65965:26:94
# text = But the garden was so perfect and so admirably kept that it was impossible there should be no master gardener to keep this domain in such wonderful order.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the garden |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | admirably *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | no master gardener |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the garden *not said here* | this domain |  | such wonderful order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent domain=Theme in order=Location |

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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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