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title: Now the Crane was very fond of fish, and he was trying to figure out… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Crane was very fond of fish, and he was trying to figure out a plan whereby he could satisfy his appetite. Who acts: Crane, water. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 120

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Now the Crane was very fond of fish, and he was trying to figure out a plan whereby he could satisfy his appetite.

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**Who acts:** Crane, water · **What happens:** be, try, figure out, satisfy · **To what, where:** plan, appetite

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crane, water), 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:pg65965:8:123
# text = Now the Crane was very fond of fish, and he was trying to figure out a plan whereby he could satisfy his appetite.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	figure	figure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Crane |  |  |  | now | of fish; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | past · progressive | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **figure out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | a plan |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Topic |
| 4 | **satisfy** | could | water | water's appetite |  |  |  | whereby *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appetite=Experiencer |

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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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