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title: At last they went home, but before leaving the field the boy who had… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they went home, but before leaving the field the boy who had taken the magic bag from beneath the stone carefully replaced it. Who acts: children, boy, leaving. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 106

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At last they went home, but before leaving the field the boy who had taken the magic bag from beneath the stone carefully replaced it.

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**Who acts:** children, boy, leaving · **What happens:** go, leave, take, replace · **To what, where:** field, magic bag, stone, BAG

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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 (children, boy, leaving), 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:pg65965:6:109
# text = At last they went home, but before leaving the field the boy who had taken the magic bag from beneath the stone carefully replaced it.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
25	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | the field |  |  |  | the boy *obj*; carefully *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent field=Theme boy=Attribute |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | the boy | the magic bag |  | the stone |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme from stone=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **replace** | past | leaving | BAG |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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