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title: The Magician thought her more beautiful than all the other beautiful… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician thought her more beautiful than all the other beautiful things he had seen, and he asked her to go home with him and to marry him. Who acts: Magician. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 106

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The Magician thought her more beautiful than all the other beautiful things he had seen, and he asked her to go home with him and to marry him.

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**Who acts:** Magician · **What happens:** think, see, ask, go, marry · **To what, where:** Balna, other beautiful things, Magician

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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 (Magician), 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:pg65965:3:107
# text = The Magician thought her more beautiful than all the other beautiful things he had seen, and he asked her to go home with him and to marry him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Magician | Balna |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | Magician | all other beautiful things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Magician |  | Balna |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Magician; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Magician *not said here* | Magician |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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