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title: The queen desired her son to conduct her to the wonderful undergroun… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen desired her son to conduct her to the wonderful underground place, which the late sultan her husband had made with such secrecy that she had never heard of it. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, wit
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 16

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The queen desired her son to conduct her to the wonderful underground place, which the late sultan her husband had made with such secrecy that she had never heard of it.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** desire, conduct, make, not hear · **To what, where:** son, queen, wonderful underground place, late sultan

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg65965:17:16
# text = The queen desired her son to conduct her to the wonderful underground place, which the late sultan her husband had made with such secrecy that she had never heard of it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | the queen | queen's son |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme |
| 2 | **conduct** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | queen |  | the wonderful underground place |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to place=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the late sultan |  |  |  | with such secrecy; the wonderful underground place *obj*; queen's husband *nsubj:pass* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | queen |  |  |  |  | of secrecy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |

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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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