The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 42

He stopped the crier, and said to him, “Let me see that apple, and tell me what virtue it possesses, to be valued at so high a rate.”

Who acts: crier, apple · What happens: stop, say, let, see, tell, possess · To what, where: crier, apple, virtue, high rate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier, apple), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crier	det
4	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
12	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Let	obj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Let	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 apple	mark
16	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Let	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	22 virtue	det
22	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 possesses	nsubj
24	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 virtue	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 valued	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	28 valued	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 valued	aux:pass
28	valued	value	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tell	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 rate	case
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 high	advmod
31	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rate	amod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rate	det
33	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 valued	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stop	past	crier	the crier			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector crier=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	crier not said here		crier		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		crier			tree rules
4	see in a quote	infinitive	crier not said here	apple			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		what virtue	crier		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient virtue=Topic
6	possess in a quote	present	apple	what virtue not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot virtue=Theme
7	value in a quote	to-infinitive · passive				a high rate	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: at rate=Value

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.

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 42