--- title: If anything went wrong with their affairs, Peter had to bear the bla… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If anything went wrong with their affairs, Peter had to bear the blame and put things right for them, and he had to endure all this ill-treatment because he was weak and delicate and couldn’t defend himself against his stronger brothers. Who acts: anything, Peter. 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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 (anything, Peter), 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:pg7277:23:3 # text = If anything went wrong with their affairs, Peter had to bear the blame and put things right for them, and he had to endure all this ill-treatment because he was weak and delicate and couldn’t defend himself against his stronger brothers. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 29 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 42 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obj _ _ 43 against against ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 amod _ _ 46 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anything | | | | | with brothers's affairs; wrong *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with affair=Beneficiary | | 2 | **have** | past | Peter | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | the blame | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Patient | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* | things | | | | for brothers *= brother*; right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | | 5 | **have** | past | Peter | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **endure** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | all ill treatment | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Circumstance | | 7 | **is** | past | Peter | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | Peter *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **defend** | could | Peter *not said here* | Peter | | | | against Peter's stronger brothers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary against brother=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/4/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/)