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title: The Princess received the package, and unwrapped it, but saw at once… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess received the package, and unwrapped it, but saw at once that it was a sham, and not the bowl of Buddha, because it did not shine as the true one would have done. Who acts: Princess, package, bowl, true one. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfiel
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 31

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The Princess received the package, and unwrapped it, but saw at once that it was a sham, and not the bowl of Buddha, because it did not shine as the true one would have done.

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**Who acts:** Princess, package, bowl, true one · **What happens:** receive, unwrap, see, be, not shine, do · **To what, where:** package, sham

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, package, bowl, true one), 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:pg65965:5:31
# text = The Princess received the package, and unwrapped it, but saw at once that it was a sham, and not the bowl of Buddha, because it did not shine as the true one would have done.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	package	package	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	unwrapped	unwrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sham	sham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the Princess | the package |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent package=Theme |
| 2 | **unwrap** | past |  | package |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | package | a sham |  |  |  | the bowl of Buddha *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **shine** | past · do-support | bowl |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | would · perfect | the true one |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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