--- title: Then the stupid servants let him walk through the palace; they did n… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Then the stupid servants let him walk through the palace; they did not know that he was no Fakir, but a wicked Magician named Punchkin. Who acts: stupid servants, husband, servants, wicked Magician. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/104/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/) / 104 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 104 Then the stupid servants let him walk through the palace; they did not know that he was no Fakir, but a wicked Magician named Punchkin. **Who acts:** stupid servants, husband, servants, wicked Magician · **What happens:** let, walk, not know, be, name · **To what, where:** husband, palace, Fakir · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupid servants, husband, servants, wicked Magician), 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:pg65965:3:105 # text = Then the stupid servants let him walk through the palace; they did not know that he was no Fakir, but a wicked Magician named Punchkin. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 Fakir fakir NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 parataxis _ _ 27 Punchkin Punchkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | the stupid servants | husband | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **walk** | infinitive | husband *not said here* | | | the palace | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | servants *= servant* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | past | husband | no Fakir | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **name** | participle | a wicked Magician | | | | | Punchkin *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/105/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/)