---
title: Unfortunately, the new-comer was by nature spiteful and envious, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately, the new-comer was by nature spiteful and envious, and could not bear anyone to have better luck than himself. Who acts: new comer. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/100/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/) / 100

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 100

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Unfortunately, the new-comer was by nature spiteful and envious, and could not bear anyone to have better luck than himself.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** new comer · **What happens:** be, not bear, have · **To what, where:** anyone, better luck

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new comer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:31:100
# text = Unfortunately, the new-comer was by nature spiteful and envious, and could not bear anyone to have better luck than himself.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the new comer |  |  |  |  | by nature; unfortunately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bear** | could |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | better luck |  |  |  | than king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/99/)
- next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/101/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/)