The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 45
Of course, such insolence on the part of another lion made this one more angry than before, as the old Hare had intended it should, and he exclaimed in a rage, “Show me instantly where this impertinent villain of a lion lives.”
Who acts: HARE, impertinent villain · What happens: make, intend, exclaim, show, live · To what, where: one, old Hare, rage, HARE · 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 (HARE, impertinent villain), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 insolence | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 insolence | punct |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insolence | amod |
| 5 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 insolence | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lion | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 angry | advmod |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 angry | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 intended | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 intended | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hare | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Hare | amod |
| 23 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 intended | aux |
| 25 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 should | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 intended | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 exclaimed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 exclaimed | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 31 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 rage | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 rage | det |
| 34 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 exclaimed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Show | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Show | punct |
| 37 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 exclaimed | advcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 Show | iobj |
| 39 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 47 lives | advmod |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 lives | advmod |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 villain | det |
| 42 | impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 villain | amod |
| 43 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lives | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 lion | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 lion | det |
| 46 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 villain | nmod |
| 47 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Show | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this one | of such insolence on the part of another lion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | ||||
| 2 | intend | past · perfect · passive | the old Hare | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | HARE | a rage | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show in a quote | infinitive | HARE not said here | HARE | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | this impertinent villain of a lion | instantly property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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