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title: Then the little kitchen maid called out, “Little Nightingale, our gr… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little kitchen maid called out, “Little Nightingale, our gracious Emperor invites you to sing before him this evening!” Who acts: Little Nightingale, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 143

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Then the little kitchen maid called out, “Little Nightingale, our gracious Emperor invites you to sing before him this evening!”

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**Who acts:** Little Nightingale, you · **What happens:** call out, invite, sing · **To what, where:** little kitchen maid, you · **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 (Little Nightingale, you), 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:pg65965:1:151
# text = Then the little kitchen maid called out, “Little Nightingale, our gracious Emperor invites you to sing before him this evening!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	invites	invite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: express* | participle |  | the little kitchen maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **invite** *in a quote* | present | Little Nightingale | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | before Nightingale; evening |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |

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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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