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title: But this man was wiser than the others, for he took the three follow… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But this man was wiser than the others, for he took the three following precautions: First, he framed a curious garland of roses, of which he discovered the princess was very fond. Who acts: man, princess. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 30

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But this man was wiser than the others, for he took the three following precautions: First, he framed a curious garland of roses, of which he discovered the princess was very fond.

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**Who acts:** man, princess · **What happens:** be, take, follow, frame, discover · **To what, where:** three following precautions, curious garland

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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 (man, princess), 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:pg65965:7:31
# text = But this man was wiser than the others, for he took the three following precautions: First, he framed a curious garland of roses, of which he discovered the princess was very fond.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	precautions	precaution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	framed	frame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this man |  |  |  |  | than the others; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | man | the three following precautions |  |  |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **frame** | past | man | a curious garland of roses |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent garland=Destination |
| 5 | **discover** | past | man |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |

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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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