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title: Now he had twice as many silkworms as before, and they spun double t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he had twice as many silkworms as before, and they spun double the amount of silk that he had expected; so his brother Chô had really done him a good turn when he tried to ruin him. Who acts: Musai, silkworms, silk, brother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 87

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Now he had twice as many silkworms as before, and they spun double the amount of silk that he had expected; so his brother Chô had really done him a good turn when he tried to ruin him.

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**Who acts:** Musai, silkworms, silk, brother · **What happens:** have, spin, double, expect, do, try · **To what, where:** many silkworms, amount, Musai, silk

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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 (Musai, silkworms, silk, brother), 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:pg65965:6:90
# text = Now he had twice as many silkworms as before, and they spun double the amount of silk that he had expected; so his brother Chô had really done him a good turn when he tried to ruin him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	Chô	Chô	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	really	really	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Musai | many silkworms |  |  | now | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=Patient |
| 2 | **spin** | past | silkworms *= silkworm* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **double** | infinitive | silkworms *= silkworm* *not said here* | the amount of silk |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent amount=Patient |
| 4 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive | silk *not said here* | Musai |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | Musai's brother | Musai |  |  |  | a good turn *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | past | Musai |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **ruin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Musai *not said here* | Musai |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 8 | **amount** |  |  | silk |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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