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title: This apple which you see cost the same sum as the carpet and the tub… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This apple which you see cost the same sum as the carpet and the tube; but it has this surprising power—its smell will restore to life a sick person, whatever be the malady. Who acts: you, apple, tube, smell. 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 74

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This apple which you see cost the same sum as the carpet and the tube; but it has this surprising power—its smell will restore to life a sick person, whatever be the malady.

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**Who acts:** you, apple, tube, smell · **What happens:** see, cost, have, restore, be, smell · **To what, where:** apple, same sum, surprising power, sick person, life, malady

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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 (you, apple, tube, smell), 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:pg65965:11:74
# text = This apple which you see cost the same sum as the carpet and the tube; but it has this surprising power—its smell will restore to life a sick person, whatever be the malady.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	det:predet	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	malady	malady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | this apple |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cost** | present | this apple | the same sum |  |  |  | as the carpet and the tube | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sum=Value |
| 3 | **have** | present | tube | this surprising power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 4 | **restore** | future | tube's smell | a sick person and whatever malady | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Theme to life=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive | tube's smell *not said here* | whatever malady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **smell** |  | tube |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: 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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