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title: And so they called her Princess Moonlight, because they thought that… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And so they called her Princess Moonlight, because they thought that only a daughter of the Moon God could give forth such a soft, bright light. Who acts: children, daughter. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its depende
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 105

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And so they called her Princess Moonlight, because they thought that only a daughter of the Moon God could give forth such a soft, bright light.

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**Who acts:** children, daughter · **What happens:** call, think, give · **To what, where:** soft bright light · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, daughter), 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:pg65965:4:106
# text = And so they called her Princess Moonlight, because they thought that only a daughter of the Moon God could give forth such a soft, bright light.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Moonlight	Moonlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | presence's Princess *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | could | a daughter of the Moon God | such soft bright light |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

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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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