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title: Scarcely had the braggart spoken than he fell into one of the pitfal… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarcely had the braggart spoken than he fell into one of the pitfalls that he had ordered to be made and he immediately disappeared from view. Who acts: Scarcely, pitfalls. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

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Scarcely had the braggart spoken than he fell into one of the pitfalls that he had ordered to be made and he immediately disappeared from view.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, pitfalls · **What happens:** have, speak, fall, order, make, disappear · **To what, where:** braggart, pitfalls, view · **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 (Scarcely, pitfalls), 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:pg65965:6:27
# text = Scarcely had the braggart spoken than he fell into one of the pitfalls that he had ordered to be made and he immediately disappeared from view.
1	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	braggart	braggart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pitfalls	pitfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	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 | **have** | past | Scarcely | the braggart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braggart=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the braggart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Scarcely |  |  |  |  | into one of the pitfalls *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result |
| 4 | **order** | past · perfect | Scarcely | the pitfalls |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the pitfalls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 6 | **disappear** | past | Scarcely |  |  | view |  | immediately *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from view=Initial\_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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