--- title: It seemed to him that she had sent him on a mission of great danger,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: It seemed to him that she had sent him on a mission of great danger, knowing it to be impossible to accomplish the task which she had set him. Who acts: It, love. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/53/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/) / 53 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 53 It seemed to him that she had sent him on a mission of great danger, knowing it to be impossible to accomplish the task which she had set him. **Who acts:** It, love · **What happens:** seem, send, know, be, accomplish, set · **To what, where:** word, mission, task · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, love), 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:pg65965:5:53 # text = It seemed to him that she had sent him on a mission of great danger, knowing it to be impossible to accomplish the task which she had set him. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mission mission NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 accomplish accomplish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | It | | word | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **send** | past · perfect | love | word | | a mission of great danger | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **know** | gerund | love *not said here* | mission | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | | the task | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | | 6 | **set** | past · perfect · passive | | the task | | | | love *nsubj:pass*; word *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/)