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title: Of course, such insolence on the part of another lion made this one… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course, such insolence on the part of another lion made this one more angry than before, as the old Hare had intended it should, and he exclaimed in a rage, “Show me instantly where this impertinent villain of a lion lives.” Who acts: HARE, impertinent villain. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book;
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

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Of course, such insolence on the part of another lion made this one more angry than before, as the old Hare had intended it should, and he exclaimed in a rage, “Show me instantly where this impertinent villain of a lion lives.”

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**Who acts:** HARE, impertinent villain · **What happens:** make, intend, exclaim, show, live · **To what, where:** one, old Hare, rage, HARE · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HARE, impertinent villain), 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:pg65965:9:46
# text = Of course, such insolence on the part of another lion made this one more angry than before, as the old Hare had intended it should, and he exclaimed in a rage, “Show me instantly where this impertinent villain of a lion lives.”
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	villain	villain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | this one |  |  |  | of such insolence on the part of another lion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
| 2 | **intend** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old Hare |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | HARE |  |  | a rage |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive | HARE *not said here* |  | HARE |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | present | this impertinent villain of a lion |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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