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title: Working hard in the heat had not improved his temper, and when he sa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Working hard in the heat had not improved his temper, and when he saw that Felicia had succeeded in finding her pinks he was so angry that he dragged her out into the garden and shut the door upon her. Who acts: Bruno, Felicia. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 90

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Working hard in the heat had not improved his temper, and when he saw that Felicia had succeeded in finding her pinks he was so angry that he dragged her out into the garden and shut the door upon her.

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**Who acts:** Bruno, Felicia · **What happens:** work, not improve, see, succeed, find, be · **To what, where:** temper, pinks, Felicia, garden, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bruno, Felicia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:22:90
# text = Working hard in the heat had not improved his temper, and when he saw that Felicia had succeeded in finding her pinks he was so angry that he dragged her out into the garden and shut the door upon her.
1	Working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	improved	improve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in the heat; hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heat=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **improve** | past · perfect |  | Bruno's temper |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent temper=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | Bruno |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **succeed** | past · perfect | Felicia |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | gerund | Bruno *not said here* | Felicia's pinks |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pink=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | past | Bruno |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **drag out** | past | Bruno | Felicia |  | the garden |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 8 | **shut** | infinitive | Felicia *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | upon Felicia | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 9 | **temper** |  | Bruno |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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