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title: The young ruler became greatly attached to his new pet, and would al… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The young ruler became greatly attached to his new pet, and would allow no one but himself to look after it. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 30

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The young ruler became greatly attached to his new pet, and would allow no one but himself to look after it.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** attach, allow, look · **To what, where:** young ruler, one

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg65965:19:30
# text = The young ruler became greatly attached to his new pet, and would allow no one but himself to look after it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **attach** | past · passive |  | the young ruler |  |  |  | to luncheon's new pet; greatly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to pet=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **allow** | would |  | no one  luncheon |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer one=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one  luncheon *not said here* |  |  |  | after ruler |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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