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title: So he determined to give up all thought of winning the Princess Moon… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So he determined to give up all thought of winning the Princess Moonlight. Who acts: word, thought. 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 54

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So he determined to give up all thought of winning the Princess Moonlight.

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**Who acts:** word, thought · **What happens:** determine, give up, win · **To what, where:** thought, Princess Moonlight

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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 (word, thought), 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:pg65965:5:54
# text = So he determined to give up all thought of winning the Princess Moonlight.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Moonlight	Moonlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | word |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give up** | to-infinitive | word *not said here* | all thought |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Source |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | all thought *not said here* | the Princess Moonlight |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moonlight=Eventuality |

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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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