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title: After the dessert, which consisted of the choicest fruits and sweetm… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: After the dessert, which consisted of the choicest fruits and sweetmeats, the fairy Perie Banou and Prince Ahmed rose and repaired to a dais, provided with cushions of fine silk, curiously embroidered. Who acts: dessert, fairy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 54

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After the dessert, which consisted of the choicest fruits and sweetmeats, the fairy Perie Banou and Prince Ahmed rose and repaired to a dais, provided with cushions of fine silk, curiously embroidered.

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**Who acts:** dessert, fairy · **What happens:** consist, rise, repair, provide, embroider · **To what, where:** dais, fine silk

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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 (dessert, fairy), 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:pg65965:12:54
# text = After the dessert, which consisted of the choicest fruits and sweetmeats, the fairy Perie Banou and Prince Ahmed rose and repaired to a dais, provided with cushions of fine silk, curiously embroidered.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	Perie	Perie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Banou	Banou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dais	dais	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | past | the dessert |  |  |  |  | of the choicest fruits and sweetmeats | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the fairy |  |  |  | after the dessert |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repair** | participle | the fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a dais | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **provide** | participle |  | a dais *not said here* |  |  |  | with cushions of fine silk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cushion=Theme |
| 5 | **embroider** | participle |  | fine silk *not said here* |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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