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title: You may imagine the fury of the Ambassador when, after all his pomp… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You may imagine the fury of the Ambassador when, after all his pomp and pride, the King absolutely and unaccountably refused to receive him. Who acts: You, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 71

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You may imagine the fury of the Ambassador when, after all his pomp and pride, the King absolutely and unaccountably refused to receive him.

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**Who acts:** You, King · **What happens:** imagine, refuse, not receive, infuriate · **To what, where:** fury, pomp, Ambassador

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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 (You, King), 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:pg7277:16:71
# text = You may imagine the fury of the Ambassador when, after all his pomp and pride, the King absolutely and unaccountably refused to receive him.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	unaccountably	unaccountably	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may | You | the fury of the Ambassador |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fury=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the King | Ambassador's pomp and pride *not said here* |  |  |  | absolutely, unaccountably *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **receive** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | Ambassador |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **infuriate** |  |  | the Ambassador |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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