--- title: One, who was carrying a beautiful lantern decorated with peony-flowe… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: One, who was carrying a beautiful lantern decorated with peony-flowers,[5] appeared to be a servant;—the other was a slender girl of about seventeen, wearing a long-sleeved robe embroidered with designs of autumn-blossoms. Who acts: One, beautiful lantern. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, beautiful lantern), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:5:76 # text = One, who was carrying a beautiful lantern decorated with peony-flowers,[5] appeared to be a servant;—the other was a slender girl of about seventeen, wearing a long-sleeved robe embroidered with designs of autumn-blossoms. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 9 decorated decorate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 peony peony NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 sleeved sleeve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 amod _ _ 40 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 41 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 designs design NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past · progressive | One | | | | | who *nsubj* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **decorate** | participle | | a beautiful lantern *not said here* | | | | with peony flowers | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | past | a beautiful lantern | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a beautiful lantern *not said here* | a servant | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | | a other slender girl | | | | of seventeen | tree rules | | 6 | **wear** | gerund | One *not said here* | a sleeved robe | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | | 7 | **sleeve** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **embroider** | participle | | a sleeved robe *not said here* | | | | with designs of autumn blossoms | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with design=Theme | | 9 | **design** | | | autumn blossoms | | | | | nom design «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/76/) - ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/)