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title: She sent to the young prince a ring of jade with instructions that h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: She sent to the young prince a ring of jade with instructions that he must always wear it, as it would protect him from all harm while in his father’s country. Who acts: Queen, prince, ring. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18,
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 126

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She sent to the young prince a ring of jade with instructions that he must always wear it, as it would protect him from all harm while in his father’s country.

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**Who acts:** Queen, prince, ring · **What happens:** send, wear, protect · **To what, where:** ring, young prince, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, prince, ring), 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:pg65965:18:129
# text = She sent to the young prince a ring of jade with instructions that he must always wear it, as it would protect him from all harm while in his father’s country.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Queen | a ring of jade | the young prince |  |  | with instructions | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to prince=Destination |
| 2 | **wear** | must | prince | ring |  |  |  | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | would | ring |  | prince |  |  | from all harm; father country *advcl* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from harm=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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