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title: The princess had almost won when Abibas threw at her feet the bag co… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess had almost won when Abibas threw at her feet the bag containing the gilded ball. Who acts: princess, Abibas, bag. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

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The princess had almost won when Abibas threw at her feet the bag containing the gilded ball.

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**Who acts:** princess, Abibas, bag · **What happens:** win, throw, contain, gild · **To what, where:** bag, feet, gilded ball

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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 (princess, Abibas, bag), 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:pg65965:7:52
# text = The princess had almost won when Abibas threw at her feet the bag containing the gilded ball.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	Abibas	Abibas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · perfect | the princess |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Abibas | the bag |  | Abibas's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bag=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | the bag *not said here* | the gilded ball |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ball=Theme |
| 4 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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