--- title: As soon as he was eighteen he took the red silk out of his pigtail a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as he was eighteen he took the red silk out of his pigtail and the silver chain from his neck, because grown-up people were supposed to be able to protect themselves against the Genii without the aid of charms. Who acts: Pei. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Pe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/28/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/) / 28 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 28 As soon as he was eighteen he took the red silk out of his pigtail and the silver chain from his neck, because grown-up people were supposed to be able to protect themselves against the Genii without the aid of charms. **Who acts:** Pei · **What happens:** be, take, grow up, suppose, protect · **To what, where:** red silk, pigtail, grown people, people This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei), 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:pg65965:25:29 # text = As soon as he was eighteen he took the red silk out of his pigtail and the silver chain from his neck, because grown-up people were supposed to be able to protect themselves against the Genii without the aid of charms. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 pigtail pigtail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obj _ _ 37 against against ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Genii Genii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 without without ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 charms charm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Pei | | | | | as eighteen; soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | Pei | the red silk | | Pei's pigtail and the silver chain | | from Pei's neck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent silk=Theme out pigtail=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **suppose** | past · passive | | grown people | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | against the Genii; without the aid of charms | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary against genii=Theme | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/29/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/)