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title: “Your Royal Highness must know that not all that is written is true,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your Royal Highness must know that not all that is written is true, and that much of it is invented,” said he. Who acts: Royal Highness, all, Highness. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 123

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“Your Royal Highness must know that not all that is written is true, and that much of it is invented,” said he.

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**Who acts:** Royal Highness, all, Highness · **What happens:** know, write, not be, invent, say · **To what, where:** much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Royal Highness, all, Highness), 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:pg65965:1:131
# text = “Your Royal Highness must know that not all that is written is true, and that much of it is invented,” said he.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | must | Your Royal Highness |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | all |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **invent** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | much of mention |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Highness |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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