--- title: 'How tiresome,' muttered Gudu, as he went back to his place; and aft… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'How tiresome,' muttered Gudu, as he went back to his place; and after waiting a little longer he got up, and peeped again, but still the rabbit's pink eyes stared widely. Who acts: tiresome, Gudu, pink eyes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/) / 24 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 24 'How tiresome,' muttered Gudu, as he went back to his place; and after waiting a little longer he got up, and peeped again, but still the rabbit's pink eyes stared widely. **Who acts:** tiresome, Gudu, pink eyes · **What happens:** mutter, go back, wait, get up, peep, stare · **To what, where:** Gudu This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiresome, Gudu, pink eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:4:24 # text = 'How tiresome,' muttered Gudu, as he went back to his place; and after waiting a little longer he got up, and peeped again, but still the rabbit's pink eyes stared widely. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 tiresome tiresome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 muttered mutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Gudu Gudu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 little little ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 peeped peep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 39 widely widely ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | tiresome | Gudu | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gudu=Topic | | 2 | **go back** | past | Gudu | | | | | to Gudu's place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | Gudu *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get up** | past | Gudu | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **peep** | past | | | | | again | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stare** | past | the rabbit's pink eyes | | | | | widely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/)