--- title: He told his brother how this good fortune had come to him in a dream… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He told his brother how this good fortune had come to him in a dream, and this made Chô more jealous of him than before. Who acts: Musai, good fortune, this. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/113/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/) / 113 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 113 He told his brother how this good fortune had come to him in a dream, and this made Chô more jealous of him than before. **Who acts:** Musai, good fortune, this · **What happens:** tell, come, make · **To what, where:** brother, Musai, dream, Chô · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, good fortune, this), 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:pg65965:6:116 # text = He told his brother how this good fortune had come to him in a dream, and this made Chô more jealous of him than before. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 19 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 Chô Chô PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 before before ADV RB _ 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Musai | | Musai's brother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past · perfect | this good fortune | | Musai | a dream | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **make** | past | this | Chô | | | | jealous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chô=Product | 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/112/) - next →: [Opening, part 7, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/7/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/)