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title: "How very annoying!" sighed the Eagle, thinking regretfully of the t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "How very annoying!" sighed the Eagle, thinking regretfully of the tender morsel he had let slip. Who acts: annoying, tender morsel. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 157

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"How very annoying!" sighed the Eagle, thinking regretfully of the tender morsel he had let slip.

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**Who acts:** annoying, tender morsel · **What happens:** sigh, think, let · **To what, where:** Eagle

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, 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 (annoying, tender morsel), 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:pg7128:8:157
# text = "How very annoying!" sighed the Eagle, thinking regretfully of the tender morsel he had let slip.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	regretfully	regretfully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past | annoying | the Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | annoying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the tender morsel; regretfully *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | past · perfect · passive | the tender morsel *not said here* | Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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