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title: The fairy, who had her eyes fixed on the pretended sick woman all th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy, who had her eyes fixed on the pretended sick woman all the time the prince was speaking, ordered two of her women to take her from the men who supported her, conduct her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as they would of herself. Who acts: fairy, eyes, prince, 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 58

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The fairy, who had her eyes fixed on the pretended sick woman all the time the prince was speaking, ordered two of her women to take her from the men who supported her, conduct her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as they would of herself.

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**Who acts:** fairy, eyes, prince, two, men, woman · **What happens:** have, fix, pretend, speak, order, take · **To what, where:** eyes, two, woman, apartment, much care · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, eyes, prince, two), 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:pg65965:13:58
# text = The fairy, who had her eyes fixed on the pretended sick woman all the time the prince was speaking, ordered two of her women to take her from the men who supported her, conduct her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as they would of herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the fairy | woman's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | participle | woman's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the pretended sick woman | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  | time |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **order** | past | the fairy | two of woman's women |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent two=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | two of woman's women *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | from the men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from man=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **support** | past | the men | woman |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 8 | **conduct** | infinitive | two of woman's women *not said here* | woman |  | a apartment of the palace |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into apartment=Destination |
| 9 | **take** | infinitive |  | much care of woman |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 10 | **care** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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