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title: They then went away, after thanking the Princess for her kindness. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: They then went away, after thanking the Princess for her kindness. Who acts: jewelers. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 38

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They then went away, after thanking the Princess for her kindness.

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**Who acts:** jewelers · **What happens:** go away, thank · **To what, where:** Princess

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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 (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:pg65965:5:38
# text = They then went away, after thanking the Princess for her kindness.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | jewelers *= jeweler* |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | jewelers *= jeweler* *not said here* |  | the Princess |  |  | for Princess's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent princess=Theme for kindness=Attribute |

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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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