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title: The fairy led Ahmed through the apartments of the palace, where he s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 50

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The fairy led Ahmed through the apartments of the palace, where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and all sorts of fine jewels intermixed with pearls, agate, jasper, and the most precious marbles, together with the richest furniture disposed in the most elegant profusion.

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**Who acts:** fairy, Ahmed · **What happens:** lead, see, intermix, dispose, sort · **To what, where:** Ahmed, apartments, diamonds, fine jewels, richest furniture, elegant profusion

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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 (fairy, 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:pg65965:12:50
# text = The fairy led Ahmed through the apartments of the palace, where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and all sorts of fine jewels intermixed with pearls, agate, jasper, and the most precious marbles, together with the richest furniture disposed in the most elegant profusion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	intermixed	intermix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	jasper	jasper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	38	advmod	_	_
38	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	together	together	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	amod	_	_
45	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
46	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	50	advmod	_	_
50	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the fairy | Ahmed |  | the apartments of the palace |  | all sorts of fine jewels and the precious marbles and the richest furniture *parataxis* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ahmed=Theme through apartment=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Ahmed | diamonds and rubies and emeralds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diamond=Stimulus |
| 3 | **intermix** | participle |  | fine jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls and agate and jasper | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pearl=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **dispose** | participle |  | the richest furniture *not said here* |  | the elegant profusion |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | fine jewels |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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