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title: This caused her to cry out in anger: “Never shall the daughter of a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This caused her to cry out in anger: “Never shall the daughter of a king be wed to such a clown as you.” Who acts: This. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 43

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This caused her to cry out in anger: “Never shall the daughter of a king be wed to such a clown as you.”

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** cause, cry out, w · **To what, where:** Abibas, anger, daughter · **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 7. 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:pg65965:7:44
# text = This caused her to cry out in anger: “Never shall the daughter of a king be wed to such a clown as you.”
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | This |  | Abibas |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  | anger |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location |
| 3 | **w** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | the daughter of a king |  |  |  | to such clown as you | 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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