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title: Lagree was as much surprised as displeased at the happy result of th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lagree was as much surprised as displeased at the happy result of this expedition, and Fairer-than-a Fairy waited anxiously for an opportunity of meeting Prince Rainbow and telling him her adventures. Who acts: Lagree, Fairer, heroine. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 75

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Lagree was as much surprised as displeased at the happy result of this expedition, and Fairer-than-a Fairy waited anxiously for an opportunity of meeting Prince Rainbow and telling him her adventures.

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**Who acts:** Lagree, Fairer, heroine · **What happens:** be, displease, wait, tell, result, adventure · **To what, where:** happy result, adventures, Fairer, expedition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Lagree, Fairer, heroine), 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:pg640:23:75
# text = Lagree was as much surprised as displeased at the happy result of this expedition, and Fairer-than-a Fairy waited anxiously for an opportunity of meeting Prince Rainbow and telling him her adventures.
1	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	displeased	displease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Rainbow	Rainbow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Lagree |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **displease** | participle | Lagree *not said here* |  |  | the happy result of this expedition |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wait** | past | Fairer |  |  |  |  | for a opportunity of meeting; anxiously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Fairer *not said here* | heroine's adventures | Fairer |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | this expedition |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **adventure** |  | heroine |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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