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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 66

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As they sat there crying they saw by the tomb a small tank filled with a rich cream-like substance, which hardened into a thick white cake.

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**Who acts:** Princesses, rich like substance · **What happens:** sit, cry, see, fill, harden · **To what, where:** small tank, thick white cake

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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 (Princesses, rich like substance), 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:pg65965:3:67
# text = As they sat there crying they saw by the tomb a small tank filled with a rich cream-like substance, which hardened into a thick white cake.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hardened	harden	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Princesses *= princess* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Princesses *= princess* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Princesses *= princess* | a small tank |  |  |  | by the tomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tank=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fill** | participle |  | a small tank *not said here* |  |  |  | with a rich like substance | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with substance=Instrument |
| 5 | **harden** | past | a rich like substance |  |  | a thick white cake |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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