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title: Prince Ahmed no sooner saw himself in Nouronnihar’s chamber than he… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ahmed no sooner saw himself in Nouronnihar’s chamber than he rose off the carpet, and went to the bedside, and put the apple to her nostrils. Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ahmed. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its d
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 5

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Prince Ahmed no sooner saw himself in Nouronnihar’s chamber than he rose off the carpet, and went to the bedside, and put the apple to her nostrils.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · **What happens:** see, rise, go, put · **To what, where:** Ahmed, chamber, carpet, bedside, apple

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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 (Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), 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:pg65965:12:5
# text = Prince Ahmed no sooner saw himself in Nouronnihar’s chamber than he rose off the carpet, and went to the bedside, and put the apple to her nostrils.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Prince Ahmed | Ahmed |  | Nouronnihar's chamber |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | past | Ahmed |  |  | the carpet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme off carpet=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the bedside |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | the apple |  |  |  | to Nouronnihar's nostrils | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent apple=Goal |

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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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