The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 20
“You insignificant little creatures, how dare you address me in such manner,” roared the Lion.
Who acts: You, insignificant little creatures · What happens: creature, address, roar · To what, where: dare, Mosquitoes, such manner, Lion
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, insignificant little creatures), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creatures | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 creatures | nsubj |
| 3 | insignificant | insignificant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roared | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dare | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 dare | advmod |
| 8 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 creatures | appos |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 address | nsubj |
| 10 | address | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dare | acl:relcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 address | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 manner | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 manner | amod |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 address | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 creatures | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creatures | punct |
| 17 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 roared | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature in a quote | You | dare appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | address in a quote | present | you | dare not said here | the Mosquitoes = mosquito | such manner | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination | ||
| 3 | roar | past | insignificant little creatures | the Lion | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=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.
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