The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 111

On hearing her story the master was very angry, and commanded that all his people should search for the dog, and that it should be punished by having its tail cut off.

Who acts: people, tail · What happens: hear, be, command, search, punish, have · To what, where: story, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, tail), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 angry	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 story	nmod:poss
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 angry	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 angry	advmod
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 commanded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 commanded	cc
12	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 angry	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 search	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 people	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 people	nmod:poss
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 search	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 search	aux
18	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 commanded	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 dog	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 search	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 punished	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 punished	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 punished	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 punished	nsubj:pass
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 punished	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 punished	aux:pass
28	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 search	conj
29	by	by	SCONJ	_	30 having	mark
30	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 punished	advcl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tail	nmod:poss
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 having	obj
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 having	xcomp
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 cut	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		cat's story	the master obj	tree rules
2	is	past			angry property	tree rules
3	command	past				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	search	should	master's people		for the dog	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for dog=Theme
5	punish	should · passive		story		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	have	gerund		story's tail		tree rules
7	cut off	participle	story's tail not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 18, sentence 111

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 111