--- title: This filled him with fear, and he promised to leave her free if she… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: This filled him with fear, and he promised to leave her free if she would resume her former shape, to which she then returned. Who acts: This, Emperor, love. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Emperor, 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:pg65965:5:66 # text = This filled him with fear, and he promised to leave her free if she would resume her former shape, to which she then returned. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 filled fill 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 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 resume resume VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | This | Emperor | | | | with fear | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with fear=Instrument | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Emperor | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | love's free | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent free=Theme | | 4 | **resume** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | love | love's former shape | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality | | 5 | **return** | past | love | | | | then | which *obl* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to which=Result | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/)