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title: To make matters worse, he seemed to be in a very bad temper, and cam… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To make matters worse, he seemed to be in a very bad temper, and came blustering and raging at the poor Princess. Who acts: enchanter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 106

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To make matters worse, he seemed to be in a very bad temper, and came blustering and raging at the poor Princess.

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**Who acts:** enchanter · **What happens:** make, seem, be, come, bluster, rage · **To what, where:** matters, bad temper

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter), 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:pg7277:11:106
# text = To make matters worse, he seemed to be in a very bad temper, and came blustering and raging at the poor Princess.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	blustering	bluster	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | enchanter *not said here* | matters |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product |
| 2 | **seem** | past | enchanter |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | enchanter *not said here* |  |  | a bad temper |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | enchanter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bluster** *speech: other* | gerund | enchanter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rage** | gerund | enchanter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the poor Princess | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at princess=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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