--- title: The next morning as Prince Ahmed went out as usual at the iron door,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The next morning as Prince Ahmed went out as usual at the iron door, with his attendants, on his journey to the capital, he saw a woman lying with her head on a rock, and complaining as if she was in great pain. Who acts: next morning, Ahmed, woman, sorceress. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Sto --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/49/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/) / 49 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 49 The next morning as Prince Ahmed went out as usual at the iron door, with his attendants, on his journey to the capital, he saw a woman lying with her head on a rock, and complaining as if she was in great pain. **Who acts:** next morning, Ahmed, woman, sorceress · **What happens:** go out, see, lie, complain, be, journey · **To what, where:** iron door, woman, rock, great pain This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning, Ahmed, woman, sorceress), 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:pg65965:13:49 # text = The next morning as Prince Ahmed went out as usual at the iron door, with his attendants, on his journey to the capital, he saw a woman lying with her head on a rock, and complaining as if she was in great pain. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 iron iron ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 complaining complain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | the next morning as Prince Ahmed | | | the iron door | | as usual; with Ahmed's attendants | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with attendant=Co-Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | Ahmed | a woman | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | | | a rock | | with sorceress's head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | | 4 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | Ahmed *not said here* | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | sorceress | | | great pain | | | tree rules | | 6 | **journey** | | Ahmed | | | | | to the capital | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/50/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/)