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title: Then immediately each shows his teeth and wags his tail to prove tha… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then immediately each shows his teeth and wags his tail to prove that he is not the guilty one. Who acts: each, dog. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 114

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Then immediately each shows his teeth and wags his tail to prove that he is not the guilty one.

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**Who acts:** each, dog · **What happens:** show, wag, prove, not be · **To what, where:** teeth, tail, guilty one

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:18:116
# text = Then immediately each shows his teeth and wags his tail to prove that he is not the guilty one.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wags	wag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | each | dog's teeth |  |  | then | immediately *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
| 2 | **wag** | present | each *not said here* | dog's tail |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **prove** | to-infinitive | each *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | dog | the guilty one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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