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title: Very soon the Crow, who had been looking for his friend, came along,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the Crow, who had been looking for his friend, came along, and seeing his sorry plight, asked him how this all happened. Who acts: Crow, seeing, this. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 126

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Very soon the Crow, who had been looking for his friend, came along, and seeing his sorry plight, asked him how this all happened.

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**Who acts:** Crow, seeing, this · **What happens:** look, come along, see, ask, happen, plight · **To what, where:** sorry plight, CROW · **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 (Crow, seeing, this), 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:pg65965:7:128
# text = Very soon the Crow, who had been looking for his friend, came along, and seeing his sorry plight, asked him how this all happened.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	along	along	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · perfect · progressive | the Crow |  |  |  |  | for CROW's friend | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for friend=Theme |
| 2 | **come along** | past | the Crow |  |  |  |  | along, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | CROW's sorry plight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plight=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | seeing |  | CROW |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **plight** |  | CROW |  |  |  |  |  | nom plight «state 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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