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title: Very soon Small-wit (who had been watching all the time) came along,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon Small-wit (who had been watching all the time) came along, and said to himself, “Oho! my scheme worked well. Who acts: Small wit, scheme, my. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 118

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Very soon Small-wit (who had been watching all the time) came along, and said to himself, “Oho! my scheme worked well.

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**Who acts:** Small wit, scheme, my · **What happens:** watch, come along, say, work, scheme · **To what, where:** wit · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small wit, scheme, my), 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:pg65965:7:120
# text = Very soon Small-wit (who had been watching all the time) came along, and said to himself, “Oho! my scheme worked well.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
3	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	along	along	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Oho	oho	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | Small wit |  |  |  | time |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come along** | past | Small wit |  |  |  |  | along, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  |  | wit |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **work** *in a quote* | past | my scheme |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **scheme** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom scheme «cognition 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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