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title: “Princess Moonlight, many moons ago you committed a grave fault, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Princess Moonlight, many moons ago you committed a grave fault, and for punishment were sent down to earth to live for a time. Who acts: you. 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 e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 86

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“Princess Moonlight, many moons ago you committed a grave fault, and for punishment were sent down to earth to live for a time.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** commit, send down, live · **To what, where:** grave fault, 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 (you), 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:pg65965:5:86
# text = “Princess Moonlight, many moons ago you committed a grave fault, and for punishment were sent down to earth to live for a time.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** *in a quote* | past | you | a grave fault |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme |
| 2 | **send down** *in a quote* | past · passive | you *not said here* |  |  | earth |  | for punishment | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to earth=Destination |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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