The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 10

At length one of them laughed at the others, and taunted them with being afraid without any reason, and dared them to at once eat the rice which they all wanted.

Who acts: followers · What happens: laugh, taunt, be, dare, eat, want · To what, where: length, followers, rice

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (followers), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 length	flat
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laughed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taunted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taunted	cc
12	taunted	taunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taunted	obj
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 afraid	mark
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 afraid	cop
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 taunted	advcl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 reason	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 afraid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dared	cc
22	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dared	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	22 dared	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 dared	obl
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dared	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rice	det
29	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 wanted	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wanted	nsubj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 wanted	advmod
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rice	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past			length	at the others	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	taunt	past		followers = follower			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	gerund				without any reason; afraid property	tree rules
4	dare	past		followers = follower			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	eat	infinitive		the rice			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
6	want	past	followers = follower	the rice			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 10

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 10