--- title: If it please you, we will ourselves furnish you daily with a beast f… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: If it please you, we will ourselves furnish you daily with a beast for your Majesty’s meal.” Who acts: Majesty. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/38/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/) / 38 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 38 If it please you, we will ourselves furnish you daily with a beast for your Majesty’s meal.” **Who acts:** Majesty · **What happens:** furnish · **To what, where:** you This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty), 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:pg65965:9:39 # text = If it please you, we will ourselves furnish you daily with a beast for your Majesty’s meal.” 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 please please INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 9 furnish furnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 daily daily ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **furnish** | future | Majesty | | you | | | with a beast; for your Majesty's meal; we *nsubj*; ourselves *nsubj*; daily *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with beast=Theme | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/39/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/)