--- title: This was a great aggravation to the Prince, who was not accustomed t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This was a great aggravation to the Prince, who was not accustomed to keep his ideas to himself, and he positively found himself wishing for his old friend Patience. Who acts: This, Prince. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:36:74 # text = This was a great aggravation to the Prince, who was not accustomed to keep his ideas to himself, and he positively found himself wishing for his old friend Patience. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 aggravation aggravation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 positively positively ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 wishing wish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | This | a great aggravation | | | | to the Prince | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **accustom** | past · passive | | a great aggravation | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | Prince's ideas | Prince | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | Prince | Prince | | | | positively *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **wish** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | for Prince's old friend Patience | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for patience=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/75/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/)