--- title: “If that be all,” replied Prince Houssain, “we cannot make more desp… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “If that be all,” replied Prince Houssain, “we cannot make more despatch than by transporting ourselves instantly into her chamber by means of my carpet. Who acts: all, we. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/1/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/) / 1 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 1 “If that be all,” replied Prince Houssain, “we cannot make more despatch than by transporting ourselves instantly into her chamber by means of my carpet. **Who acts:** all, we · **What happens:** reply, not make, transport, mean · **To what, where:** Prince, more despatch, ourselves, chamber · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, we), 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:pg65965:12:1 # text = “If that be all,” replied Prince Houssain, “we cannot make more despatch than by transporting ourselves instantly into her chamber by means of my carpet. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 Houssain Houssain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 despatch despatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 than than SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 by by SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 transporting transport VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 22 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | all that | Prince | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | | 2 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | can | we | more despatch | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despatch=Product | | 3 | **transport** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* | ourselves | | her chamber | | instantly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer | | 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | of my carpet | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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: [Opening, part 11, 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/75/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/)