--- title: Presently the King appeared, and the parrot noticed with joy how muc… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Presently the King appeared, and the parrot noticed with joy how much he was disliked. Who acts: King, parrot. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/40/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/) / 40 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 40 Presently the King appeared, and the parrot noticed with joy how much he was disliked. **Who acts:** King, parrot · **What happens:** appear, notice, dislike · **To what, where:** much, parrot This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, parrot), 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:pg640:20:40 # text = Presently the King appeared, and the parrot noticed with joy how much he was disliked. 1 Presently presently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 disliked dislike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the King | | | | | presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | past | the parrot | much | | | | with joy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | | 3 | **dislike** | past · passive | | parrot | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/41/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)