The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 52

“I am very unhappy to have to struggle against my anger and pride every day; if I had been punished for them when I was little they would not be such a trouble to me now.”

Who acts: bad disposition, anger, my · What happens: be, have, struggle, punish, not be, anger · To what, where: bad disposition, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bad disposition, anger, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 unhappy	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 unhappy	advmod
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unhappy	csubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 struggle	mark
9	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 anger	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 anger	nmod:poss
12	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struggle	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pride	cc
14	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 anger	conj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struggle	obl:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 punished	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 punished	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 punished	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 punished	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 punished	aux:pass
22	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 unhappy	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 punished	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 little	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 little	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 little	cop
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 punished	conj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 trouble	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 trouble	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 trouble	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 trouble	cop
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 trouble	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 trouble	det
35	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 little	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 trouble	nmod
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 trouble	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a bad disposition = disposition				unhappy property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	to-infinitive						tree rules
3	struggle in a quote	to-infinitive				day	against my anger and pride	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	punish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		a bad disposition = disposition			for anger	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for they=Theme
5	is in a quote	past	a bad disposition = disposition				little property	tree rules
6	not is a in a quote	would	anger	such trouble	a bad disposition = disposition	now		tree rules
7	anger in a quote		my					nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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