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title: It made her sad to think that she would not be able to make a return… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It made her sad to think that she would not be able to make a return for all the love and kindness they had shown her. Who acts: purpose, Princess, people. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 78

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It made her sad to think that she would not be able to make a return for all the love and kindness they had shown her.

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**Who acts:** purpose, Princess, people · **What happens:** make, think, not be, show · **To what, where:** Princess, return, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (purpose, Princess, people), 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:pg65965:5:78
# text = It made her sad to think that she would not be able to make a return for all the love and kindness they had shown her.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	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 | purpose | Princess |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | purpose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | would | Princess |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | a return |  |  |  | for all love and kindness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent return=Product for love=Asset |
| 5 | **show** | past · perfect | people | all love and kindness *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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