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title: The Princess overheard their conversation with her foster-father, an… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess overheard their conversation with her foster-father, and then directed that they be well paid for what they had done. Who acts: Princess, jewelers. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 37

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The Princess overheard their conversation with her foster-father, and then directed that they be well paid for what they had done.

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**Who acts:** Princess, jewelers · **What happens:** overhear, direct, pay, do, converse · **To what, where:** conversation, jewelers

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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, jewelers), 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:pg65965:5:37
# text = The Princess overheard their conversation with her foster-father, and then directed that they be well paid for what they had done.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	overheard	overhear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	directed	direct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhear** | past | the Princess | jewelers's conversation |  |  |  | with Princess's foster father | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **direct** | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** | infinitive · passive |  | jewelers *= jeweler* |  |  |  | what *obl*; well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for what=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | jewelers *= jeweler* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **converse** |  | jewelers *= jeweler* |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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