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title: She hoped by those means to attach Prince Ahmed entirely to herself. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: She hoped by those means to attach Prince Ahmed entirely to herself. Who acts: fairy, those. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 58

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She hoped by those means to attach Prince Ahmed entirely to herself.

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**Who acts:** fairy, those · **What happens:** hope, mean, attach · **To what, where:** Prince Ahmed, fairy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, those), 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:pg65965:12:58
# text = She hoped by those means to attach Prince Ahmed entirely to herself.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	attach	attach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | those |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **attach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | those *not said here* | Prince Ahmed | fairy |  |  | entirely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Patient to herself=Co-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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