--- title: ‘Wait a minute,’ replied Désiré, so much astonished that he forgot h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Wait a minute,’ replied Désiré, so much astonished that he forgot his own sufferings; and to satisfy the bird he took a second orange, and opened it without thinking what he was doing. Who acts: Désiré. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré), 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:pg540:40:116 # text = ‘Wait a minute,’ replied Désiré, so much astonished that he forgot his own sufferings; and to satisfy the bird he took a second orange, and opened it without thinking what he was doing. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Désiré Désiré PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 much much ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 astonished astonish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sufferings suffering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 satisfy satisfy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 without without SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | minute | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Désiré | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **astonish** | past | Désiré *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **forget** | past | Désiré | Désiré's own sufferings | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive | Désiré *not said here* | the bird | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | | 6 | **take** | past | Désiré | a second orange | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme | | 7 | **open** | past | | canary | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **do** | past · progressive | Désiré | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 10 | **suffer** | | Désiré | | | | | | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/117/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Canary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/)