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title: On and on they flew, stopping neither for rest nor food, and at leng… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on they flew, stopping neither for rest nor food, and at length they reached the Japan Sea. Who acts: wings. 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 clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 99

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On and on they flew, stopping neither for rest nor food, and at length they reached the Japan Sea.

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**Who acts:** wings · **What happens:** fly, stop, reach · **To what, where:** Japan Sea, length

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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 (wings), 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:pg65965:8:101
# text = On and on they flew, stopping neither for rest nor food, and at length they reached the Japan Sea.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | wings *= wing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for rest nor food; neither *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reach** | past | wings *= wing* | the Japan Sea |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sea=Theme at length=Asset |

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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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