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title: This surprised the Lion, who was not used to being spoken to in such… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This surprised the Lion, who was not used to being spoken to in such an impertinent manner. Who acts: This. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 12

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This surprised the Lion, who was not used to being spoken to in such an impertinent manner.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** surprise, not use, speak · **To what, where:** Lion, impertinent manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg65965:24:13
# text = This surprised the Lion, who was not used to being spoken to in such an impertinent manner.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surprise** | past | This | the Lion |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **use** | past · passive |  | the Lion |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  |  |  | such impertinent manner |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V» |

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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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