--- title: She told him she was the Malee’s daughter, and the Magician said, “Y… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: She told him she was the Malee’s daughter, and the Magician said, “You are a very pretty little girl, and to-morrow you shall take a present of flowers from me to the beautiful lady who lives in the tower.” Who acts: girl, Magician, beautiful lady. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/24/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/) / 24 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 24 She told him she was the Malee’s daughter, and the Magician said, “You are a very pretty little girl, and to-morrow you shall take a present of flowers from me to the beautiful lady who lives in the tower.” **Who acts:** girl, Magician, beautiful lady · **What happens:** tell, be, say, take, live · **To what, where:** Magician, daughter, pretty little girl, present, morrow, tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Magician, beautiful lady), 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:pg65965:4:24 # text = She told him she was the Malee’s daughter, and the Magician said, “You are a very pretty little girl, and to-morrow you shall take a present of flowers from me to the beautiful lady who lives in the tower.” 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Malee Malee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl | | Magician | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | past | girl | the Malee's daughter | | | | the Malee *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Magician | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Magician | a pretty little girl | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | Magician | a present of flowers | | morrow | | from girl; to the beautiful lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent present=Theme to morrow=Destination from i=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the beautiful lady | | | the tower | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/4/)