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description: And each day after this, instead of eating the poor food their stepmother provided for them, they would go to their mother’s grave and eat the pomelos which grew there on the tree. Who acts: stepmother, children, pomelos. 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 3, sentence 51

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And each day after this, instead of eating the poor food their stepmother provided for them, they would go to their mother’s grave and eat the pomelos which grew there on the tree.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, children, pomelos · **What happens:** eat, provide, go, grow · **To what, where:** poor food, grave, pomelos, tree

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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 (stepmother, children, pomelos), 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:pg65965:3:52
# text = And each day after this, instead of eating the poor food their stepmother provided for them, they would go to their mother’s grave and eat the pomelos which grew there on the tree.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pomelos	pomelo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | the poor food |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 2 | **provide** | past | children's stepmother | the poor food *not said here* |  |  |  | for children *= child* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition food=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **go** | would | children *= child* |  |  | children's mother's grave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the pomelos |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomelo=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | past | the pomelos |  |  | the tree; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |

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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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