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title: Away flew the eaglets, and when they had reached their home in the t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Away flew the eaglets, and when they had reached their home in the tree the Prince said to the old eagles, “Here are your little ones, who have done me good service. Who acts: eaglets, Prince, little ones. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 66

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Away flew the eaglets, and when they had reached their home in the tree the Prince said to the old eagles, “Here are your little ones, who have done me good service.

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**Who acts:** eaglets, Prince, little ones · **What happens:** fly, reach, say, be, do · **To what, where:** eaglets, home, tree, old eagles, little ones, good service · **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 (eaglets, Prince, little ones), 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:pg65965:4:66
# text = Away flew the eaglets, and when they had reached their home in the tree the Prince said to the old eagles, “Here are your little ones, who have done me good service.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | the eaglets |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eaglet=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect | eaglets *= eaglet* | eaglets's home |  | the tree |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince | the tree *not said here* | the old eagles |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Topic to eagle=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | your little ones |  | here |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | your little ones | good service | the Prince *= prince* |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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