--- title: Every day spent with the fairy Perie was a continual feast, for ever… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Every day spent with the fairy Perie was a continual feast, for every day she provided new delicacies, new concerts, new dances, new shows, and new diversions, which were all so gratifying to the senses that Ahmed, if he had lived a thousand years among men, could not have experienced equal enjoymen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/56/) [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/) / 56 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 56 Every day spent with the fairy Perie was a continual feast, for every day she provided new delicacies, new concerts, new dances, new shows, and new diversions, which were all so gratifying to the senses that Ahmed, if he had lived a thousand years among men, could not have experienced equal enjoyment. **Who acts:** day, fairy, new diversions, Perie · **What happens:** spend, be, provide, gratify, live, not experience · **To what, where:** day, continual feast, new delicacies, equal enjoyment 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 (day, fairy, new diversions, Perie), 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:pg65965:12:56 # text = Every day spent with the fairy Perie was a continual feast, for every day she provided new delicacies, new concerts, new dances, new shows, and new diversions, which were all so gratifying to the senses that Ahmed, if he had lived a thousand years among men, could not have experienced equal enjoyment. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 Perie Perie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 continual continual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 provided provide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 delicacies delicacy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 concerts concert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dances dance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 shows show NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 diversions diversion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 all all ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 gratifying gratify VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 if if SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 51 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl:unmarked _ _ 52 among among ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 56 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 58 advmod _ _ 57 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 58 aux _ _ 58 experienced experience VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 59 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 enjoyment enjoyment NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | participle | | every day *not said here* | | | | with the fairy | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | every day | a continual feast | | | | new diversions *appos* | tree rules | | 3 | **provide** | past | fairy | new delicacies and new concerts and new dances and new shows | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition delicacy=Theme | | 4 | **gratify** | past · progressive | new diversions | | | | | to the senses; all *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Perie | | | | year | among men | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location | | 6 | **not** **experience** | could · perfect | | equal enjoyment | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enjoyment=Stimulus | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/57/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/)