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title: “Can anything be done, dear lady, that will prolong your stay here?”… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Can anything be done, dear lady, that will prolong your stay here?” asked the Rajpoot. Who acts: dear lady, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 56

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“Can anything be done, dear lady, that will prolong your stay here?” asked the Rajpoot.

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**Who acts:** dear lady, your · **What happens:** do, prolong, ask, stay · **To what, where:** anything, stay, Rajpoot · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear lady, your), 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:pg65965:2:57
# text = “Can anything be done, dear lady, that will prolong your stay here?” asked the Rajpoot.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	prolong	prolong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Rajpoot	Rajpoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | anything |  |  |  | dear lady *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **prolong** *in a quote* | future | dear lady | your stay |  | here |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stay=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the Rajpoot |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rajpoot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stay** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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