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title: One warm day as he was enjoying his ease, he was annoyed by the flie… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One warm day as he was enjoying his ease, he was annoyed by the flies alighting on his bare ankles. Who acts: Johnny, One warm day, flies. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 108

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One warm day as he was enjoying his ease, he was annoyed by the flies alighting on his bare ankles.

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**Who acts:** Johnny, One warm day, flies · **What happens:** enjoy, be, alight · **To what, where:** ease, bare ankles

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (Johnny, One warm day, flies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:21:108
# text = One warm day as he was enjoying his ease, he was annoyed by the flies alighting on his bare ankles.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	alighting	alight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past · progressive | Johnny | Johnny's ease |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ease=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | One warm day |  |  |  |  | by the flies; annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **alight** | gerund | the flies *not said here* |  |  | Johnny's bare ankles |  |  | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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