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title: “If the carpet,” said he to the crier, “has the virtue you attribute… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “If the carpet,” said he to the crier, “has the virtue you attribute to it, I shall not think forty purses too much.” Who acts: crier, virtue. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 21

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“If the carpet,” said he to the crier, “has the virtue you attribute to it, I shall not think forty purses too much.”

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**Who acts:** crier, virtue · **What happens:** say, have, attribute, not think · **To what, where:** crier, carpet, forty purses · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier, virtue), 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:pg65965:11:21
# text = “If the carpet,” said he to the crier, “has the virtue you attribute to it, I shall not think forty purses too much.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	attribute	attribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | crier |  | the crier |  |  | the carpet *advcl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crier=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attribute** *in a quote* | infinitive | the virtue |  | carpet |  |  | you *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | shall | crier | forty purses |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purse=Theme |

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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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