--- title: To make matters worse, he was obliged to leave the town in the most… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: To make matters worse, he was obliged to leave the town in the most terrible weather, so that by the time he was within a few leagues of his home he was almost exhausted with cold and fatigue. Who acts: merchant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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:pg503:14:28 # text = To make matters worse, he was obliged to leave the town in the most terrible weather, so that by the time he was within a few leagues of his home he was almost exhausted with cold and fatigue. 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 16 advmod _ _ 16 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 within within ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 acl:relcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 almost almost ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 exhausted exhaust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | | matters | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product | | 2 | **oblige** | past · passive | | merchant | | | time | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | the town | | the terrible weather | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent town=Theme in weather=Location | | 4 | **is** | past | merchant | the time *not said here* | | | | within a few leagues; of merchant's home | tree rules | | 5 | **exhaust** | past · passive | | merchant | | | | with cold and fatigue; almost *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/29/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/)