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description: Page 191, ‘aproached’ changed to ‘approached,’ “He approached the throne” Who acts: page. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 20

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Page 191, ‘aproached’ changed to ‘approached,’ “He approached the throne”

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**Who acts:** page · **What happens:** aproach, change, approach · **To what, where:** throne

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page), 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:pg65965:28:20
# text = Page 191, ‘aproached’ changed to ‘approached,’ “He approached the throne”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	191	191	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	aproached	aproach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aproach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Page *compound* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **approach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **approach** *in a quote* | past | page | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme |

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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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