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description: The following day he went to collect firewood as usual, and as the head of his axe had become loose, he sat down to tighten it. Who acts: Guido. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

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The following day he went to collect firewood as usual, and as the head of his axe had become loose, he sat down to tighten it.

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**Who acts:** Guido · **What happens:** follow, go, collect, become, sit down, tighten · **To what, where:** firewood, axe

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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 (Guido), 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:pg65965:6:54
# text = The following day he went to collect firewood as usual, and as the head of his axe had become loose, he sat down to tighten it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	tighten	tighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Guido |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | Guido *not said here* | firewood |  |  |  | as usual | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past · perfect | Guido *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the head of Guido's axe; loose *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | Guido |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tighten** | to-infinitive | Guido *not said here* | axe |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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