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title: “Silly maiden, thy words make a lot Of a very small matter; For fear… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Silly maiden, thy words make a lot Of a very small matter; For fear of my valor, I wot, His armor will clatter. Who acts: words, King, armor, thy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 35

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“Silly maiden, thy words make a lot Of a very small matter; For fear of my valor, I wot, His armor will clatter.

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**Who acts:** words, King, armor, thy · **What happens:** make, wot, clatter, word, fear · **To what, where:** lot, valor

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, King, armor, thy), 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:pg65965:21:35
# text = “Silly maiden, thy words make a lot Of a very small matter; For fear of my valor, I wot, His armor will clatter.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	valor	valor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wot	wot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	clatter	clatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | thy words | a lot of a small matter |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product |
| 2 | **wot** *in a quote* | present | King |  |  |  |  | for fear of my valor | tree rules |
| 3 | **clatter** *in a quote* | future | King's armor |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **word** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **fear** *in a quote* |  |  | my valor |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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