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title: Now the Crane coveted the tender flesh of the Crab, and perhaps the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Crane coveted the tender flesh of the Crab, and perhaps the latter saw a greedy look in his eyes. Who acts: Crane, latter. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 17

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Now the Crane coveted the tender flesh of the Crab, and perhaps the latter saw a greedy look in his eyes.

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**Who acts:** Crane, latter · **What happens:** covet, see · **To what, where:** tender flesh, greedy look, eyes

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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 (Crane, latter), 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:pg65965:9:17
# text = Now the Crane coveted the tender flesh of the Crab, and perhaps the latter saw a greedy look in his eyes.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	coveted	covet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **covet** | past | the Crane | the tender flesh of the Crab |  |  | now |  | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the latter | a greedy look |  | Crane's eyes |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |

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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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