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title: Such heroism made the Mouse-king’s fur bristle up for pure pleasure. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Such heroism made the Mouse-king’s fur bristle up for pure pleasure. Who acts: Such heroism, ’s fur. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 30

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Such heroism made the Mouse-king’s fur bristle up for pure pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Such heroism, ’s fur · **What happens:** make, bristle up

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such heroism, ’s fur), 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:pg65965:8:31
# text = Such heroism made the Mouse-king’s fur bristle up for pure pleasure.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	heroism	heroism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bristle	bristle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Such heroism |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **bristle up** | present | the ’s fur |  |  |  |  | for pure pleasure | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |

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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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