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title: The news soon reached the Emperor, who at once made plans to keep th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The news soon reached the Emperor, who at once made plans to keep the Princess Moonlight on earth. Who acts: news. 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 73

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The news soon reached the Emperor, who at once made plans to keep the Princess Moonlight on earth.

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**Who acts:** news · **What happens:** reach, make, keep · **To what, where:** Emperor, Princess Moonlight, earth

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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 (news), 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:pg65965:5:73
# text = The news soon reached the Emperor, who at once made plans to keep the Princess Moonlight on earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the news | the Emperor and made plans  the Emperor and made plans  the Emperor |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the news *not said here* | the Princess Moonlight |  | earth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent moonlight=Theme on earth=Location |

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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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