The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 115

Unfortunately, this man was very rough and unkind, and though the poor monster was quite quiet, he often beat him without rhyme or reason when he happened to be in a bad temper.

Who acts: man, poor monster, monster, Darling · What happens: be, beat, happen · To what, where: Darling, bad temper

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, poor monster, monster, Darling), 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	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	7 rough	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unfortunately	punct
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rough	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rough	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 rough	advmod
7	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 unkind	cc
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rough	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beat	cc
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 quiet	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 monster	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 monster	amod
15	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quiet	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 quiet	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 quiet	advmod
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beat	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quiet	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beat	nsubj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 beat	advmod
22	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rough	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beat	obj
24	without	without	ADP	_	25 rhyme	case
25	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beat	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 reason	cc
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rhyme	conj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 happened	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 happened	nsubj
30	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reason	acl
31	to	to	PART	_	36 temper	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 temper	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 temper	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 temper	det
35	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 temper	amod
36	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happened	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this man			rough, unfortunately property	tree rules
2	be		this man not said here				tree rules
3	is	past	the poor monster			quiet property	tree rules
4	beat	present	monster	Darling		without rhyme or reason; often property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
5	happen	past	Darling				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	Darling not said here		a bad temper		tree rules

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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