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title: This made the Ranee more angry than before, and she sent her servant… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This made the Ranee more angry than before, and she sent her servants to pull down the tomb and fill the little tank with the ruins. Who acts: This, Ranee. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 75

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This made the Ranee more angry than before, and she sent her servants to pull down the tomb and fill the little tank with the ruins.

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**Who acts:** This, Ranee · **What happens:** make, send, pull down, fill · **To what, where:** servants, tomb, little tank

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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 (This, Ranee), 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:pg65965:3:76
# text = This made the Ranee more angry than before, and she sent her servants to pull down the tomb and fill the little tank with the ruins.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **send** | past | Ranee | stepmother's servants |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 3 | **pull down** | to-infinitive | Ranee *not said here* | the tomb |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | present | This *not said here* | the little tank |  |  |  | with the ruins | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tank=Patient with ruin=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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