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title: With this in his hand he went to the center of the ring, and asked e… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: With this in his hand he went to the center of the ring, and asked each child in turn, “What would you like to have out of the bag?” Who acts: Musai, child. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 100

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With this in his hand he went to the center of the ring, and asked each child in turn, “What would you like to have out of the bag?”

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**Who acts:** Musai, child · **What happens:** go, ask, like, have out · **To what, where:** center, child, turn, bag · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, child), 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:pg65965:6:103
# text = With this in his hand he went to the center of the ring, and asked each child in turn, “What would you like to have out of the bag?”
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Musai |  |  | the center of the ring |  | with Musai's hand  this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to center=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Musai *not said here* |  | each child | turn |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | each child *= child* |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | each child *= child* *not said here* | the bag |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |

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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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