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title: It cost me forty purses, and I am as well satisfied with my purchase… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It cost me forty purses, and I am as well satisfied with my purchase as you can be with yours; for on looking at one end of this tube you can see whatever object you wish to behold. Who acts: tube, I, you, my. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 65

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It cost me forty purses, and I am as well satisfied with my purchase as you can be with yours; for on looking at one end of this tube you can see whatever object you wish to behold.

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**Who acts:** tube, I, you, my · **What happens:** cost, be, look, see, wish, purchase · **To what, where:** forty purses, me, object

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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 (tube, I, you, my), 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:pg65965:11:65
# text = It cost me forty purses, and I am as well satisfied with my purchase as you can be with yours; for on looking at one end of this tube you can see whatever object you wish to behold.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
35	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	36	det	_	_
36	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | past | tube | forty purses | me |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary purse=Value |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with my purchase; satisfied, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | can | you |  |  |  |  | with yours | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | at one end of this tube |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | can | you | whatever object |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus |
| 6 | **wish** | present | you | whatever object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot object=Theme |
| 7 | **purchase** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=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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