--- title: About this time the Prime Minister died, leaving a widow and one dau… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: About this time the Prime Minister died, leaving a widow and one daughter, and every day, when the Princesses were getting the Rajah’s dinner ready, the widow and her daughter would come and beg for some fire from the hearth. Who acts: Prime Minister, Princesses, daughter. A sentence of «The Jade St --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/) / 30 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 30 About this time the Prime Minister died, leaving a widow and one daughter, and every day, when the Princesses were getting the Rajah’s dinner ready, the widow and her daughter would come and beg for some fire from the hearth. **Who acts:** Prime Minister, Princesses, daughter · **What happens:** die, leave, get, come, beg · **To what, where:** widow, dinner, hearth 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 (Prime Minister, Princesses, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:3:31 # text = About this time the Prime Minister died, leaving a widow and one daughter, and every day, when the Princesses were getting the Rajah’s dinner ready, the widow and her daughter would come and beg for some fire from the hearth. 1 About about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 6 compound _ _ 6 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Princesses Princess PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Rajah Rajah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | the Prime Minister | | | | day; time | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | the Prime Minister *not said here* | a widow and one daughter | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Theme | | 3 | **get** | past · progressive | the Princesses | the Rajah's dinner | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | would | wife's daughter | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive | wife's daughter *not said here* | | | the hearth | | for some fire | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for fire=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/)