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title: This Fairy was annoyed that after having taken the trouble to come s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This Fairy was annoyed that after having taken the trouble to come so quickly, there had been no one to receive her, or help her to alight from the great ostrich on which she had travelled from her distant home, and now she began to mutter to herself in the most alarming way. Who acts: Fairy, most. 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 9

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This Fairy was annoyed that after having taken the trouble to come so quickly, there had been no one to receive her, or help her to alight from the great ostrich on which she had travelled from her distant home, and now she began to mutter to herself in the most alarming way.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, most · **What happens:** be, take, come, receive, help, travell · **To what, where:** trouble, one, most, great ostrich, alarming way

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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 (Fairy, most), 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:pg7277:14:9
# text = This Fairy was annoyed that after having taken the trouble to come so quickly, there had been no one to receive her, or help her to alight from the great ostrich on which she had travelled from her distant home, and now she began to mutter to herself in the most alarming way.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	mutter	mutter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	49	obl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
54	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	55	advmod	_	_
55	alarming	alarming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this Fairy |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | gerund · perfect | this Fairy *not said here* | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | this Fairy *not said here* | the trouble *not said here* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | participle | this Fairy *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | to-infinitive | this Fairy *not said here* | most |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | infinitive | this Fairy *not said here* |  | most |  |  | alight *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **travell** | past · perfect | most |  |  | the great ostrich |  | from most's distant home | tree rules |
| 8 | **begin** | past | most |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | most *not said here* |  | most | the alarming way |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |

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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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