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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 115

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Unfortunately, this man was very rough and unkind, and though the poor monster was quite quiet, he often beat him without rhyme or reason when he happened to be in a bad temper.

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**Who acts:** man, poor monster, monster, Darling · **What happens:** be, beat, happen · **To what, where:** Darling, bad temper

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, poor monster, monster, Darling), 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:pg503:39:115
# text = Unfortunately, this man was very rough and unkind, and though the poor monster was quite quiet, he often beat him without rhyme or reason when he happened to be in a bad temper.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this man |  |  |  |  | rough, unfortunately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the poor monster |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **beat** | present | monster | Darling |  |  |  | without rhyme or reason; often *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **happen** | past | Darling |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | Darling *not said here* |  |  | a bad temper |  |  | tree rules |

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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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