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title: The nestlings were so much afraid of the Cat that they made noise en… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The nestlings were so much afraid of the Cat that they made noise enough to arouse the Vulture. Who acts: nestlings, Cat. 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 79

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The nestlings were so much afraid of the Cat that they made noise enough to arouse the Vulture.

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**Who acts:** nestlings, Cat · **What happens:** be, make, arouse · **To what, where:** noise, Vulture

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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 (nestlings, Cat), 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:pg65965:7:81
# text = The nestlings were so much afraid of the Cat that they made noise enough to arouse the Vulture.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nestlings	nestling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	arouse	arouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the nestlings |  |  |  |  | of the Cat; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Cat | noise |  |  |  | nestlings *= nestling* *nsubj*; enough *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 3 | **arouse** | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* | the Vulture |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vulture=Experiencer |

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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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