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title: At times she endeavors to get out, but as soon as she catches sight… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At times she endeavors to get out, but as soon as she catches sight of King Rasalu’s likeness on the rock she rushes back, filled with dismay, and her roaring fills the villages around with dread. Who acts: feat, roaring. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 47

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At times she endeavors to get out, but as soon as she catches sight of King Rasalu’s likeness on the rock she rushes back, filled with dismay, and her roaring fills the villages around with dread.

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**Who acts:** feat, roaring · **What happens:** endeavor, get out, catch, rush back, fill, fill around · **To what, where:** sight, rock, villages, likeness

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feat, roaring), 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:pg65965:27:48
# text = At times she endeavors to get out, but as soon as she catches sight of King Rasalu’s likeness on the rock she rushes back, filled with dismay, and her roaring fills the villages around with dread.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	endeavors	endeavor	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	around	around	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endeavor** | present | feat |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | feat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | present | feat | sight of King's likeness |  | the rock |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **rush back** | present | feat | the rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fill** | participle | feat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with dismay | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with dismay=Instrument |
| 6 | **fill around** | present | feat's roaring | the villages |  |  |  | with dread; around *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent village=Patient with dread=Instrument |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | King's likeness |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **roar** |  | feat |  |  |  |  |  | nom roaring «event intransitive»: poss=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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