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title: This made the old people and the Princess’s attendants very sad, for… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This made the old people and the Princess’s attendants very sad, for they all loved her, and the thought of losing her was a great blow to them. Who acts: This, people, thought. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its depe
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 72

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This made the old people and the Princess’s attendants very sad, for they all loved her, and the thought of losing her was a great blow to them.

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**Who acts:** This, people, thought · **What happens:** make, love, lose, be · **To what, where:** old people, Princess, great blow, people

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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 (This, people, 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:pg65965:5:72
# text = This made the old people and the Princess’s attendants very sad, for they all loved her, and the thought of losing her was a great blow to them.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | This | the old people and the Princess's attendants |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 2 | **love** | past | people | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund | the thought *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the thought | a great blow | people |  |  |  | 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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