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title: Instantly their legs shriveled up and grew thin and red; their smart… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly their legs shriveled up and grew thin and red; their smart yellow slippers turned to clumsy stork’s feet. Who acts: smart yellow slippers. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 104

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Instantly their legs shriveled up and grew thin and red; their smart yellow slippers turned to clumsy stork’s feet.

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**Who acts:** smart yellow slippers · **What happens:** shrivel up, grow, turn · **To what, where:** legs, feet

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smart yellow slippers), 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:pg65965:9:106
# text = Instantly their legs shriveled up and grew thin and red; their smart yellow slippers turned to clumsy stork’s feet.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrivel up** | participle · passive |  | Caliph's legs |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | past | Caliph's smart yellow slippers |  |  | clumsy stork's feet |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to foot=Trajectory |

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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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