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A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/139/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/) / 139 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 139 “Really, my son,” said the queen, smiling, “this is a very queer old man; but have you a mind to believe him again? **Who acts:** son, this, you · **What happens:** say, smile, be, have, believe · **To what, where:** queen, queer old man, mind, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, this, you), 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:pg65965:16:140 # text = “Really, my son,” said the queen, smiling, “this is a very queer old man; but have you a mind to believe him again? 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 queer queer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | my son | the queen | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | | 2 | **smile** | gerund | my son *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | a queer old man | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | a mind | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 5 | **believe** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | son | | | again | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/140/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/)