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description: Having finished her narrative, she said, “What does your majesty think of these unheard-of riches of the fairy? Who acts: sorceress, majesty. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 84

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Having finished her narrative, she said, “What does your majesty think of these unheard-of riches of the fairy?

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**Who acts:** sorceress, majesty · **What happens:** have, finish, say, think · **To what, where:** narrative · **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 (sorceress, majesty), 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:pg65965:13:84
# text = Having finished her narrative, she said, “What does your majesty think of these unheard-of riches of the fairy?
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
17	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | past |  | sorceress's narrative |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality narrative=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | sorceress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | your majesty |  |  |  |  | of these; What *obj*; unheard *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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