The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 28
To make matters worse, he was obliged to leave the town in the most terrible weather, so that by the time he was within a few leagues of his home he was almost exhausted with cold and fatigue.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: make, oblige, leave, be, exhaust · To what, where: matters, merchant, town, terrible weather, time
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (merchant), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 make | mark |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 make | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obliged | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obliged | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obliged | aux:pass |
| 8 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 make | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obliged | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 weather | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 weather | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 terrible | advmod |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 weather | amod |
| 17 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 time | case |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obliged | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 leagues | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 leagues | cop |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 29 leagues | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 leagues | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 leagues | amod |
| 29 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 home | nmod:poss |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leagues | nmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 exhausted | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 35 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 36 exhausted | advmod |
| 36 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 home | acl:relcl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 cold | case |
| 38 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 exhausted | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fatigue | cc |
| 40 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cold | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | matters | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | merchant | time | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | the town | the terrible weather | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent town=Theme in weather=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | merchant | the time not said here | within a few leagues; of merchant's home | tree rules | |||
| 5 | exhaust | past · passive | merchant | with cold and fatigue; almost property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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