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title: The fairy Perie Banou was at that time at work with her needle; and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy Perie Banou was at that time at work with her needle; and as she had by her several balls of thread, she took up one, and presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said, “First take this ball of thread, and I will tell you presently the use of it. Who acts: fairy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 61

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The fairy Perie Banou was at that time at work with her needle; and as she had by her several balls of thread, she took up one, and presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said, “First take this ball of thread, and I will tell you presently the use of it.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** be, have, take up, present, say, take · **To what, where:** work, one, thread, Prince Ahmed, ball, use · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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:pg65965:14:61
# text = The fairy Perie Banou was at that time at work with her needle; and as she had by her several balls of thread, she took up one, and presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said, “First take this ball of thread, and I will tell you presently the use of it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Perie	Perie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Banou	Banou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	presenting	present	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	ccomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	advmod	_	_
42	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
43	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fairy |  |  | work with fairy's needle | at that time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | fairy |  |  |  |  | by fairy's several balls of thread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take up** | past | fairy | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **present** | gerund |  | thread | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ahmed=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this ball of thread |  |  |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | fairy | the use of thread | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient use=Topic |
| 8 | **use** *in a quote* |  |  | thread |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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