The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 47

What between admiration for the Princess and annoyance at the hesitation shown by her ambassadors the Prince was too much agitated to choose any other name than the one by which he was always known.

Who acts: ambassadors, one · What happens: show, agitate, choose, know · To what, where: hesitation, Prince, other name

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ambassadors, one), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	between	between	ADP	_	3 admiration	case
3	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 Princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 admiration	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 annoyance	cc
8	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Princess	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 hesitation	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hesitation	det
11	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Princess	nmod
12	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hesitation	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 ambassadors	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ambassadors	nmod:poss
15	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shown	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prince	det
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 agitated	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 agitated	aux:pass
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 agitated	nsubj:pass
21	agitated	agitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ambassadors	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 choose	mark
23	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 agitated	xcomp
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 name	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 name	amod
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 choose	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 choose	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 known	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 known	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 known	aux:pass
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 known	advmod
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 one	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	participle		the hesitation not said here	by Princess's ambassadors	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	agitate	past · passive	Princess's ambassadors not said here	the Prince		tree rules
3	choose	to-infinitive	Princess's ambassadors not said here	any other name	than the one	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	know	past · passive	the one	Prince	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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