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title: And wherever she might be a beautiful, soft light made the place rad… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And wherever she might be a beautiful, soft light made the place radiant. Who acts: presence, beautiful soft light. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 104

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And wherever she might be a beautiful, soft light made the place radiant.

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**Who acts:** presence, beautiful soft light · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** beautiful soft light, place radiant

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presence, beautiful soft light), 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:pg65965:4:105
# text = And wherever she might be a beautiful, soft light made the place radiant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	radiant	radiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | might | presence | a beautiful soft light |  |  |  | wherever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | a beautiful soft light | the place radiant |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset radiant=Product |

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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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