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title: Their arms to wings; their necks began to sprout from between their… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Their arms to wings; their necks began to sprout from between their shoulders and grew a yard long; their beards disappeared, and their bodies were covered with feathers. Who acts: arms, beards. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 105

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Their arms to wings; their necks began to sprout from between their shoulders and grew a yard long; their beards disappeared, and their bodies were covered with feathers.

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**Who acts:** arms, beards · **What happens:** begin, sprout, grow, disappear, cover · **To what, where:** shoulders, yard, bodies

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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 (arms, beards), 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:pg65965:9:107
# text = Their arms to wings; their necks began to sprout from between their shoulders and grew a yard long; their beards disappeared, and their bodies were covered with feathers.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sprout	sprout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Caliph's arms to wings |  |  |  |  | Caliph's necks *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sprout** | to-infinitive | Caliph's arms to wings *not said here* |  |  | Caliph's shoulders |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Source |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Caliph's arms to wings *not said here* | a yard |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | Caliph's beards |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | past · passive |  | Caliph's bodies |  |  |  | with feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with feather=Theme |

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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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