--- title: He took the tent, and after he had admired its smallness he had it s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He took the tent, and after he had admired its smallness he had it set up in the great plain before mentioned, and found it large enough to cover with ease his whole army. Who acts: sultan, smallness. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/40/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/) / 40 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 40 He took the tent, and after he had admired its smallness he had it set up in the great plain before mentioned, and found it large enough to cover with ease his whole army. **Who acts:** sultan, smallness · **What happens:** take, admire, have, set up, mention, find · **To what, where:** tent, smallness, great plain, whole army This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, smallness), 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:pg65965:14:40 # text = He took the tent, and after he had admired its smallness he had it set up in the great plain before mentioned, and found it large enough to cover with ease his whole army. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 admired admire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 smallness smallness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 mentioned mention VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 ease ease NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | sultan | the tent | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | | 2 | **admire** | past · perfect | sultan | return's smallness | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smallness=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | past | sultan | smallness | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **set up** | participle | smallness *not said here* | | | the great plain | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in plain=Destination | | 5 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle | smallness *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** | past | sultan *not said here* | smallness | | | | large *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 7 | **cover** | to-infinitive | sultan *not said here* | sultan's whole army | | | | with ease | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Destination with ease=Theme | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/)