The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 114

The King was greatly annoyed at having to stay and see a visitor at such a time, and pulled off his hunting boots again with many grimaces.

Who acts: King, hunting, visitor · What happens: be, have, stay, see, pull off, boot · To what, where: visitor

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, hunting, visitor), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 annoyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoyed	cop
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 annoyed	advmod
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 annoyed	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 having	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stay	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 visitor	det
13	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 time	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pulled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pulled	cc
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 annoyed	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 pulled	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hunting	nmod:poss
23	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boots	nsubj
24	boots	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 pulled	ccomp
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 boots	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 grimaces	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grimaces	amod
28	grimaces	grimace	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 boots	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 annoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			annoyed, greatly property	tree rules
2	have	gerund	the King not said here				tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive	the King not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive	the King not said here	a visitor	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus
5	pull off	past	the King not said here				vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	boot	present	visitor's hunting		again	with many grimaces	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	hunt		visitor				nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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