--- title: Houssain took the ivory tube, and wished to see the Princess Nouronn… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Houssain took the ivory tube, and wished to see the Princess Nouronnihar, when Ali and Prince Ahmed, who kept their eyes fixed on him, were extremely surprised to see his countenance suddenly express extraordinary alarm and affliction. Who acts: Houssain, Ali, eyes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/) / 68 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 68 Houssain took the ivory tube, and wished to see the Princess Nouronnihar, when Ali and Prince Ahmed, who kept their eyes fixed on him, were extremely surprised to see his countenance suddenly express extraordinary alarm and affliction. **Who acts:** Houssain, Ali, eyes · **What happens:** take, wish, see, keep, fix, be · **To what, where:** ivory tube, Princess Nouronnihar, eyes, countenance 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 (Houssain, Ali, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:11:68 # text = Houssain took the ivory tube, and wished to see the Princess Nouronnihar, when Ali and Prince Ahmed, who kept their eyes fixed on him, were extremely surprised to see his countenance suddenly express extraordinary alarm and affliction. 1 Houssain Houssain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Nouronnihar Nouronnihar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 16 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 extremely extremely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 express express ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 affliction affliction NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Houssain | the ivory tube | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tube=Theme | | 2 | **wish** | past | Houssain *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Houssain *not said here* | the Princess Nouronnihar | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nouronnihar=Stimulus | | 4 | **keep** | past | Ali and Prince Ahmed | princes's eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fix** | participle | princes's eyes *not said here* | | | | | on Ali | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | Ali and Prince Ahmed | | | | | extremely, surprised *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | Ali and Prince Ahmed *not said here* | Ali's countenance and express extraordinary alarm and affliction | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer countenance=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)