--- title: Then Guido said: “My lord, I will sell the stone; but let me say one… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Then Guido said: “My lord, I will sell the stone; but let me say one thing—if the price be not given, it shall be returned to me.” Who acts: Guido, lord. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/61/) [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/) / 61 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 61 Then Guido said: “My lord, I will sell the stone; but let me say one thing—if the price be not given, it shall be returned to me.” **Who acts:** Guido, lord · **What happens:** say, sell, let, not give, return · **To what, where:** stone, Guido, one thing, price · **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 (Guido, lord), 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:pg65965:6:62 # text = Then Guido said: “My lord, I will sell the stone; but let me say one thing—if the price be not given, it shall be returned to me.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Guido Guido PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 — - PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Guido | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **sell** *in a quote* | future | My lord | the stone | | | | I *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Guido | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Guido *not said here* | one thing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **not** **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | the price | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **return** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | stone | Guido | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/62/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/6/)