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title: The reading of this letter embarrassed and displeased Farda-Kinbras… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The reading of this letter embarrassed and displeased Farda-Kinbras and Birbantine immensely, while the Princess was furious at the insolence of the demand. Who acts: reading, Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 50

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The reading of this letter embarrassed and displeased Farda-Kinbras and Birbantine immensely, while the Princess was furious at the insolence of the demand.

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**Who acts:** reading, Princess · **What happens:** embarrass, displease, be, read · **To what, where:** Farda, insolence, letter

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reading, Princess), 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:pg7277:16:50
# text = The reading of this letter embarrassed and displeased Farda-Kinbras and Birbantine immensely, while the Princess was furious at the insolence of the demand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	embarrassed	embarrass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	displeased	displease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	Farda	Farda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Kinbras	Kinbras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Birbantine	Birbantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embarrass** | past | the reading of this letter |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **displease** | past | the reading of this letter *not said here* | Farda and Birbantine |  |  |  | immensely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus farda=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  | the insolence of the demand |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** |  |  | this letter |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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