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title: Having reached his own door, the noble beast fawned upon him, and wa… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Having reached his own door, the noble beast fawned upon him, and wagging his tail as if in triumph, ran back into the woods. Who acts: noble beast. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 49

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Having reached his own door, the noble beast fawned upon him, and wagging his tail as if in triumph, ran back into the woods.

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**Who acts:** noble beast · **What happens:** have, reach, fawn, wag, run back · **To what, where:** own door, tail, triumph

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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 (noble beast), 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:pg65965:6:50
# text = Having reached his own door, the noble beast fawned upon him, and wagging his tail as if in triumph, ran back into the woods.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	reparandum	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fawned	fawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | past |  | Guido's own door |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **fawn** | past | the noble beast |  |  |  |  | upon Guido | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wag** | gerund | the noble beast *not said here* | Guido's tail |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 5 | **run back** | past | the noble beast *not said here* |  |  | triumph |  | into the woods *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |

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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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