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title: He wandered through the palace, looking at the beautiful things ther… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He wandered through the palace, looking at the beautiful things there, and at length reached the room where Balna sat singing to her little boy. Who acts: husband, Balna. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 105

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He wandered through the palace, looking at the beautiful things there, and at length reached the room where Balna sat singing to her little boy.

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**Who acts:** husband, Balna · **What happens:** wander, look, reach, sit, sing · **To what, where:** palace, room, length, little boy

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Balna), 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:pg65965:3:106
# text = He wandered through the palace, looking at the beautiful things there, and at length reached the room where Balna sat singing to her little boy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | husband |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | husband *not said here* |  |  | there |  | at the beautiful things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | husband *not said here* | the room |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent room=Theme at length=Asset |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Balna |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Balna *not said here* |  | Balna's little boy |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient |

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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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