The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 42

Now that day the Lion was very hungry, and he became very angry at being kept waiting for his meal, so when he saw the Hare walking along as though he had all day to spare he roared at him, “How dare you so delay your coming?”

Who acts: day, HARE, your · What happens: be, become, keep, wait, see, walk · To what, where: Hare, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, HARE, your), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hungry	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hungry	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hungry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 angry	advmod
14	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	17 kept	mark
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 kept	aux:pass
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 angry	advcl
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 meal	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 meal	nmod:poss
21	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 saw	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 saw	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hare	det
28	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
29	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 saw	xcomp
30	along	along	ADV	_	29 walking	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	29 walking	advmod
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 walking	advcl
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 spare	mark
38	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 day	acl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 roared	nsubj
40	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spare	ccomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 roared	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dare	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	46 dare	punct
45	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	46 dare	advmod
46	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 saw	parataxis
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 dare	obj
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 delay	advmod
49	delay	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 dare	parataxis
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 coming	nsubj
51	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 delay	advcl
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	51 coming	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	46 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that day			now	the Lion nsubj; hungry property	tree rules
2	become	past	HARE				angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	keep	gerund · passive	HARE not said here					tree rules
4	wait	gerund	HARE not said here				for HARE's meal	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	HARE	the Hare				tree rules
6	walk	gerund	the Hare not said here				along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	HARE			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	spare	to-infinitive	HARE not said here					tree rules
9	roar	past	HARE				at petition	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
10	dare in a quote	infinitive			you			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
11	delay in a quote	present						vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
12	come in a quote	gerund	your					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 9, sentence 42