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title: Next day the Prime Minister’s daughter followed them, and saw the Pr… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day the Prime Minister’s daughter followed them, and saw the Princesses gather and eat the pomelos. Who acts: daughter, Princesses. 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 c
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 53

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Next day the Prime Minister’s daughter followed them, and saw the Princesses gather and eat the pomelos.

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**Who acts:** daughter, Princesses · **What happens:** follow, see, gather, eat · **To what, where:** ministers, pomelos · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (daughter, Princesses), 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:pg65965:3:54
# text = Next day the Prime Minister’s daughter followed them, and saw the Princesses gather and eat the pomelos.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
5	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pomelos	pomelo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the Prime Minister's daughter | ministers *= minister* |  |  | day |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Prime Minister's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gather** | present | the Princesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present | the Princesses *not said here* | the pomelos |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomelo=Patient |

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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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