--- title: I have made the experiment, and can show you its wonderful effect on… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: I have made the experiment, and can show you its wonderful effect on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar if we hasten to assist her.” Who acts: I, we, tube. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/75/) [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/) / 75 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 75 I have made the experiment, and can show you its wonderful effect on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar if we hasten to assist her.” **Who acts:** I, we, tube · **What happens:** make, show, hasten, assist, effect · **To what, where:** experiment, wonderful effect, you, Nouronnihar 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 (I, we, tube), 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:pg65965:11:75 # text = I have made the experiment, and can show you its wonderful effect on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar if we hasten to assist her.” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 experiment experiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Nouronnihar Nouronnihar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hasten hasten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 assist assist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect | I | the experiment | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experiment=Product | | 2 | **show** | can | | tube's wonderful effect | you | | | on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient effect=Topic | | 3 | **hasten** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **assist** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | Nouronnihar | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 5 | **effect** | | tube | | | | | on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent on=obl | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/74/) - next →: [Opening, part 12, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)