--- title: Perie Banou was seated in this hall, on a throne of massy gold, enri… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Perie Banou was seated in this hall, on a throne of massy gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly dressed. Who acts: beautiful fairies, extraordinary size. A sentence of «The Jade Story Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/73/) [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/) / 73 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 73 Perie Banou was seated in this hall, on a throne of massy gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly dressed. **Who acts:** beautiful fairies, extraordinary size · **What happens:** seat, enrich, attend, dress, pearl · **To what, where:** Perie, hall, all 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 (beautiful fairies, extraordinary size), 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:pg65965:13:73 # text = Perie Banou was seated in this hall, on a throne of massy gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly dressed. 1 Perie Perie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 Banou Banou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 massy massy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 enriched enrich VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 rubies ruby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 attended attend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 richly richly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seat** | past · passive | | Perie | | this hall | | pearls of a extraordinary size *obl*; a throne of massy gold *parataxis* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hall=Location | | 2 | **enrich** | participle | | | | | | with diamonds and rubies | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme | | 3 | **attend** | participle | | | | | | by a great number of beautiful fairies; on each hand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme | | 4 | **dress** | participle · passive | beautiful fairies *not said here* | all | | | | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **pearl** | | a extraordinary size | | | | | | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/)