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title: Very soon the widow came to the door, and begged for a few sticks fr… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the widow came to the door, and begged for a few sticks from the fire with which to cook her own dinner. Who acts: widow. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 38

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Very soon the widow came to the door, and begged for a few sticks from the fire with which to cook her own dinner.

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**Who acts:** widow · **What happens:** come, beg, cook · **To what, where:** door, own dinner

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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 (widow), 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:pg65965:3:39
# text = Very soon the widow came to the door, and begged for a few sticks from the fire with which to cook her own dinner.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the widow |  |  | the door |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | the widow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a few sticks from the fire | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for stick=Topic |
| 3 | **cook** | to-infinitive | the widow *not said here* | woman's own dinner |  |  |  | with the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient with which=Instrument |

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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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