--- title: The King was greatly annoyed at having to stay and see a visitor at… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King was greatly annoyed at having to stay and see a visitor at such a time, and pulled off his hunting boots again with many grimaces. Who acts: King, hunting, visitor. 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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 (King, hunting, visitor), 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:pg7277:11:114 # text = The King was greatly annoyed at having to stay and see a visitor at such a time, and pulled off his hunting boots again with many grimaces. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 at at SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 visitor visitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 17 det:predet _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 boots boot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 grimaces grimace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the King | | | | | annoyed, greatly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | the King *not said here* | a visitor | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus | | 5 | **pull off** | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **boot** | present | visitor's hunting | | | | again | with many grimaces | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hunt** | | visitor | | | | | | nom hunting «act transitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/115/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)