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title: What between admiration for the Princess and annoyance at the hesita… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What between admiration for the Princess and annoyance at the hesitation shown by her ambassadors the Prince was too much agitated to choose any other name than the one by which he was always known. Who acts: ambassadors, one. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 47

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What between admiration for the Princess and annoyance at the hesitation shown by her ambassadors the Prince was too much agitated to choose any other name than the one by which he was always known.

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**Who acts:** ambassadors, one · **What happens:** show, agitate, choose, know · **To what, where:** hesitation, Prince, other name

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ambassadors, one), 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:pg7277:14:47
# text = What between admiration for the Princess and annoyance at the hesitation shown by her ambassadors the Prince was too much agitated to choose any other name than the one by which he was always known.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	agitated	agitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **show** | participle |  | the hesitation *not said here* |  |  |  | by Princess's ambassadors | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **agitate** | past · passive | Princess's ambassadors *not said here* | the Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | to-infinitive | Princess's ambassadors *not said here* | any other name |  |  |  | than the one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past · passive | the one | Prince |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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 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.

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