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title: The Emperor was greatly touched by the story, and sending for his Ch… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor was greatly touched by the story, and sending for his Chief Counsellor, asked him if what Guido said was true. Who acts: story, Guido. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

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The Emperor was greatly touched by the story, and sending for his Chief Counsellor, asked him if what Guido said was true.

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**Who acts:** story, Guido · **What happens:** touch, send, ask, say, be · **To what, where:** Emperor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story, Guido), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:6:68
# text = The Emperor was greatly touched by the story, and sending for his Chief Counsellor, asked him if what Guido said was true.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	Counsellor	Counsellor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
21	Guido	Guido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past · passive | the story | the Emperor |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **send** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for Emperor's Chief | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the story *not said here* |  | Emperor |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Guido |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; true *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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