--- title: Unluckily he had a hasty temper, and did not stop to reason, and, in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Unluckily he had a hasty temper, and did not stop to reason, and, instead of sending to the town, and discovering people who knew his daughter-in-law and could have told him how hard she had worked and how poor she had been, he believed all the brother’s lying words, and made the queen believe them --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/49/) [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 Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/) / 49 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 49 Unluckily he had a hasty temper, and did not stop to reason, and, instead of sending to the town, and discovering people who knew his daughter-in-law and could have told him how hard she had worked and how poor she had been, he believed all the brother’s lying words, and made the queen believe them too. **Who acts:** face, people, daughter, queen · **What happens:** have, not stop, send, discover, know, tell · **To what, where:** hasty temper, town, people, daughter, face, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, people, daughter, queen), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:21:49 # text = Unluckily he had a hasty temper, and did not stop to reason, and, instead of sending to the town, and discovering people who knew his daughter-in-law and could have told him how hard she had worked and how poor she had been, he believed all the brother’s lying words, and made the queen believe them too. 1 Unluckily unluckily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 hasty hasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP TO _ 13 case _ _ 13 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 19 mark _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 discovering discover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux _ _ 38 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 47 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 54 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 56 det:predet _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 ccomp _ _ 58 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 57 xcomp _ _ 59 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obj _ _ 65 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 xcomp _ _ 66 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 obj _ _ 67 too too ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | face | a hasty temper | | | | unluckily *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient | | 2 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | face *not said here* | | | | | to reason | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **send** | gerund | face *not said here* | | | the town | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to town=Destination | | 4 | **discover** | gerund | face *not said here* | people | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 5 | **know** | past | people | face's daughter and law | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could · perfect | people *not said here* | | face | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **work** | past · perfect | daughter | | | | | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **be** | past · perfect | daughter | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **believe** | past | face | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **lie** | gerund | face *not said here* | words | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | | 11 | **make** | past | face *not said here* | the queen | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **believe** | infinitive | the queen *not said here* | people | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/50/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)