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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 81

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At length, being assured of the sincerity of his affection for herself, she resolved to grant him the permission which he so ardently desired.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** assure, resolve, grant, desire · **To what, where:** length, permission, Prince

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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), 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:pg65965:12:81
# text = At length, being assured of the sincerity of his affection for herself, she resolved to grant him the permission which he so ardently desired.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sincerity	sincerity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	ardently	ardently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | gerund · passive |  | length *not said here* |  |  |  | of the sincerity of Prince's affection for fairy | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of sincerity=Topic |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | fairy |  |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** | to-infinitive | fairy *not said here* | the permission | Prince |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal permission=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** | participle · passive |  | the permission |  |  |  | Prince *nsubj*; ardently *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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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