--- title: Juan commanded it to shake its whiskers, and when the money began to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Juan commanded it to shake its whiskers, and when the money began to drop he was so delighted that he took the animal and started home to show his treasure to his mother. Who acts: Juan, money. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/) / 37 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 37 Juan commanded it to shake its whiskers, and when the money began to drop he was so delighted that he took the animal and started home to show his treasure to his mother. **Who acts:** Juan, money · **What happens:** command, shake, begin, drop, be, take · **To what, where:** bark, whiskers, animal, treasure, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Juan, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:22:38 # text = Juan commanded it to shake its whiskers, and when the money began to drop he was so delighted that he took the animal and started home to show his treasure to his mother. 1 Juan Juan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 home home ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | Juan | bark | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **shake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Juan *not said here* | bark's whiskers | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | | 3 | **begin** | past | the money | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **drop** | to-infinitive | the money *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | JUAN | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **take** | past | JUAN | | the animal | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | | 7 | **start** | past | JUAN *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **show** | to-infinitive | JUAN *not said here* | JUAN's treasure | JUAN's mother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic to mother=Recipient | | 9 | **treasure** | | JUAN | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/38/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/)