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title: “You insignificant little creatures, how dare you address me in such… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “You insignificant little creatures, how dare you address me in such manner,” roared the Lion. Who acts: You, insignificant little creatures. 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 e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 20

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“You insignificant little creatures, how dare you address me in such manner,” roared the Lion.

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**Who acts:** You, insignificant little creatures · **What happens:** creature, address, roar · **To what, where:** dare, Mosquitoes, such manner, Lion

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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 (You, insignificant little creatures), 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:pg65965:24:21
# text = “You insignificant little creatures, how dare you address me in such manner,” roared the Lion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	insignificant	insignificant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	address	address	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creature** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  | dare *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **address** *in a quote* | present | you | dare *not said here* | the Mosquitoes *= mosquito* | such manner |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination |
| 3 | **roar** | past | insignificant little creatures | the Lion |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme |

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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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