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title: But instead of following her advice the other sisters gave the girl… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But instead of following her advice the other sisters gave the girl some of the cake, and she went straight home and told her mother all about it. Who acts: other sisters, some, stepmother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, w
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 74

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But instead of following her advice the other sisters gave the girl some of the cake, and she went straight home and told her mother all about it.

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**Who acts:** other sisters, some, stepmother · **What happens:** follow, give, girl, go, tell · **To what, where:** mother · **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 (other sisters, some, stepmother), 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:pg65965:3:75
# text = But instead of following her advice the other sisters gave the girl some of the cake, and she went straight home and told her mother all about it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	iobj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the other sisters |  |  |  |  | follow stepmother's advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 3 | **girl** |  | some of the cake |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | stepmother |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | stepmother *not said here* |  | stepmother's mother |  |  | about cake | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=Topic |

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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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