--- title: It was not long before she caught up with him, and extending her han… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: It was not long before she caught up with him, and extending her hand, she struck him upon the shoulder, saying: “Stop, foolish one, do you hope to marry a princess?” Who acts: garland, Abibas, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/7/45/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/7/) / 45 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 45 It was not long before she caught up with him, and extending her hand, she struck him upon the shoulder, saying: “Stop, foolish one, do you hope to marry a princess?” **Who acts:** garland, Abibas, you · **What happens:** not be, catch up, extend, strike, say, stop · **To what, where:** hand, king, foolish one, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garland, Abibas, you), 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:pg65965:7:46 # text = It was not long before she caught up with him, and extending her hand, she struck him upon the shoulder, saying: “Stop, foolish one, do you hope to marry a princess?” 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 extending extend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | garland | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **catch up** | past | Abibas | | | | | with king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **extend** | gerund | Abibas *not said here* | Abibas's hand | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 4 | **strike** | past | Abibas | king | | | | upon the shoulder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | Abibas *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | foolish one | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality | | 7 | **hope** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/7/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/7/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/7/)