--- title: On reading the letter Gulizar's father was much enraged with his viz… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: On reading the letter Gulizar's father was much enraged with his viziers and other officials for not discovering the presence in his country of these illustrious visitors, as he was especially anxious to ingratiate himself in the favour of the prince and the vizier's son. Who acts: letter. 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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 (letter), 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:pg7128:28:138 # text = On reading the letter Gulizar's father was much enraged with his viziers and other officials for not discovering the presence in his country of these illustrious visitors, as he was especially anxious to ingratiate himself in the favour of the prince and the vizier's son. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 Gulizar Gulizar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 much much ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 enraged enrage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 viziers vizier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 discovering discover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 27 illustrious illustrious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 especially especially ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 ingratiate ingratiate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 csubj _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 vizier vizier NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | gerund | | the letter | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | | 2 | **enrage** | past · passive | | Gulizar's father | | | | with letter's viziers and other officials | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **discover** | gerund | | the presence | | letter's country of this illustrious visitors | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | letter | | | | | anxious, especially *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ingratiate** | to-infinitive | | letter | | the favour of the prince and the vizier's son | | | tree rules | | 6 | **favour** | | | the prince | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/139/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/)