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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 42

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He stopped the crier, and said to him, “Let me see that apple, and tell me what virtue it possesses, to be valued at so high a rate.”

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**Who acts:** crier, apple · **What happens:** stop, say, let, see, tell, possess · **To what, where:** crier, apple, virtue, high rate · **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, apple), 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:pg65965:11:42
# text = He stopped the crier, and said to him, “Let me see that apple, and tell me what virtue it possesses, to be valued at so high a rate.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	valued	value	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | crier | the crier |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector crier=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | crier *not said here* |  | crier |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | crier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | crier *not said here* | apple |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | what virtue | crier |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient virtue=Topic |
| 6 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | apple | what virtue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot virtue=Theme |
| 7 | **value** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | a high rate |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: at rate=Value |

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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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