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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 82

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This naturally displeased the ambassadors who had conducted the bride to court, and one of them inquired indignantly if he meant to put such an insult on the princess on the word of a mere frog.

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**Who acts:** This, ambassadors, one, ambassador · **What happens:** displease, conduct, inquire, mean, put, word · **To what, where:** ambassadors, bride, court, insult, mere frog

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, ambassadors, one, ambassador), 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:pg3027:28:82
# text = This naturally displeased the ambassadors who had conducted the bride to court, and one of them inquired indignantly if he meant to put such an insult on the princess on the word of a mere frog.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	displeased	displease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **displease** | past | This | the ambassadors |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ambassador=Experiencer |
| 2 | **conduct** | past · perfect | the ambassadors | the bride |  | court |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to court=Destination |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | one of councillors |  |  |  |  | indignantly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ambassador |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ambassador *not said here* | such insult |  |  |  | on the princess on the word of a mere frog | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent insult=Theme on princess=Destination |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | a mere frog |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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