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title: And strange to say the worms came, and throve splendidly, much to Ch… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And strange to say the worms came, and throve splendidly, much to Chô’s disappointment, because he was too mean to wish good-fortune to visit anyone but himself. Who acts: strange, Chô. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 83

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And strange to say the worms came, and throve splendidly, much to Chô’s disappointment, because he was too mean to wish good-fortune to visit anyone but himself.

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**Who acts:** strange, Chô · **What happens:** say, come, throve, be, wish, visit · **To what, where:** worms, much, good fortune, anyone · **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 (strange, Chô), 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:pg65965:6:86
# text = And strange to say the worms came, and throve splendidly, much to Chô’s disappointment, because he was too mean to wish good-fortune to visit anyone but himself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	throve	throve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Chô	Chô	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	conj	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | strange *not said here* | the worms |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent worm=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | strange |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **throve** | infinitive | strange *not said here* | much |  |  |  | to Chô's disappointment; splendidly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Chô |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | good fortune |  |  |  | Chô *conj* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fortune=Theme |
| 6 | **visit** | to-infinitive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **disappoint** |  | Chô |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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