The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 30
Such heroism made the Mouse-king’s fur bristle up for pure pleasure.
Who acts: Such heroism, ’s fur · What happens: make, bristle up
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 (Such heroism, ’s fur), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heroism | amod |
| 2 | heroism | heroism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fur | det |
| 5 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mouse | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | compound |
| 8 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fur | compound |
| 9 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bristle | nsubj |
| 10 | bristle | bristle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 bristle | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 pleasure | case |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pleasure | amod |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bristle | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Such heroism | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | bristle up | present | the ’s fur | for pure pleasure | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
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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