--- title: Whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below in the court of the palace is a pedler with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.” Who acts: countenance, I, court, such beautiful things. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; St --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/60/) [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/) / 60 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 60 Whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below in the court of the palace is a pedler with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.” **Who acts:** countenance, I, court, such beautiful things · **What happens:** be, not know, not help, feel, have, spare · **To what, where:** pedler, such beautiful things, little money 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 (countenance, I, court, such beautiful things), 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:pg65965:9:62 # text = Whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below in the court of the palace is a pedler with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.” 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 below below ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pedler pedler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 at at SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | my countenance | | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | the court of the palace | a pedler | | | | with such beautiful things | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **help** | can | I | such beautiful things | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **feel** *not said to happen* | gerund | such beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | annoyed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **have** | gerund | such beautiful things *not said here* | little money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 7 | **spare** | to-infinitive | such beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/)