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title: Then the tiger uttered a terrific growl which was like the roar of a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the tiger uttered a terrific growl which was like the roar of an earthquake, and prepared to spring. Who acts: tiger, terrific growl. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 19

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Then the tiger uttered a terrific growl which was like the roar of an earthquake, and prepared to spring.

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**Who acts:** tiger, terrific growl · **What happens:** utter, be, prepare · **To what, where:** terrific growl

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, terrific growl), 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:pg65965:27:20
# text = Then the tiger uttered a terrific growl which was like the roar of an earthquake, and prepared to spring.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the tiger | a terrific growl |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent growl=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | a terrific growl |  |  |  |  | like the roar; of a earthquake | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | participle |  |  |  |  | spring |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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