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title: The Ambassador did not at all like being put off after that fashion,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ambassador did not at all like being put off after that fashion, but he was obliged to be content, and only said very arrogantly that so soon as his equipages arrived, as he expected they would do very shortly, he would give all the people of the city, and the stranger Princes with whom it was i
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 54

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The Ambassador did not at all like being put off after that fashion, but he was obliged to be content, and only said very arrogantly that so soon as his equipages arrived, as he expected they would do very shortly, he would give all the people of the city, and the stranger Princes with whom it was inundated, an idea of the power and the magnificence of his master.

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**Who acts:** Ambassador, equipages · **What happens:** not do, put off, oblige, be, say, arrive · **To what, where:** all, Ambassador, that, people, stranger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ambassador, equipages), 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:pg7277:16:54
# text = The Ambassador did not at all like being put off after that fashion, but he was obliged to be content, and only said very arrogantly that so soon as his equipages arrived, as he expected they would do very shortly, he would give all the people of the city, and the stranger Princes with whom it was inundated, an idea of the power and the magnificence of his master.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	arrogantly	arrogantly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	equipages	equipage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	iobj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	57	appos	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	63	obl	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	inundated	inundate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	parataxis	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	conj	_	_
73	of	of	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	75	nmod:poss	_	_
75	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | the Ambassador |  |  | all |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put off** | gerund · passive | the Ambassador *not said here* |  |  |  | after that fashion |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Ambassador |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | that |  |  |  | arrogantly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 6 | **arrive** | past | Ambassador's equipages |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **expect** | past | Ambassador |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | would | equipages *= equipage* |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **give** | would | Ambassador |  | all people of the city |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 10 | **inundate** | past · passive |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with whom=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:** «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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