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title: It was beginning to grow dark when the Crow, whose name was Sharp-se… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It was beginning to grow dark when the Crow, whose name was Sharp-sense, saw the two coming home together. Who acts: wood, name, Crow, Sharp sense. 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
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 68

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It was beginning to grow dark when the Crow, whose name was Sharp-sense, saw the two coming home together.

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**Who acts:** wood, name, Crow, Sharp sense · **What happens:** begin, grow, be, see, come, name · **To what, where:** Sharp sense, two

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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 (wood, name, Crow, Sharp sense), 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:pg65965:7:70
# text = It was beginning to grow dark when the Crow, whose name was Sharp-sense, saw the two coming home together.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · progressive | wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Sharp sense's name | Sharp sense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | the Crow | the two |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | home, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  | Sharp sense |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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