The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 106

To make matters worse, he seemed to be in a very bad temper, and came blustering and raging at the poor Princess.

Who acts: enchanter · What happens: make, seem, be, come, bluster, rage · To what, where: matters, bad temper

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 (enchanter), 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	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	advcl
3	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	14 temper	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 temper	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 temper	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 temper	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 bad	advmod
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 temper	amod
14	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	conj
18	blustering	bluster	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 came	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 raging	cc
20	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 blustering	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 Princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Princess	amod
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 raging	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	enchanter not said here	matters		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product
2	seem	past	enchanter				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	enchanter not said here		a bad temper		tree rules
4	come	past	enchanter not said here				tree rules
5	bluster speech: other	gerund	enchanter not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rage	gerund	enchanter not said here			at the poor Princess	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at princess=Location

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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