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description: The Emperor requested her to stay at the court, and he gave her a large golden cage and allowed her to go out twice every day. Who acts: Emperor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 162

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The Emperor requested her to stay at the court, and he gave her a large golden cage and allowed her to go out twice every day.

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** request, stay, give, allow, go out · **To what, where:** girl, court, large golden cage

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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 (Emperor), 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:pg65965:1:170
# text = The Emperor requested her to stay at the court, and he gave her a large golden cage and allowed her to go out twice every day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | past | the Emperor | girl |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* |  |  | the court |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | EMPEROR | a large golden cage | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cage=Theme |
| 4 | **allow** | past | EMPEROR *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | EMPEROR *not said here* |  |  |  | day | out, twice *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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