Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 3

He was so cheerful that he made everybody else cheerful; and people all over the land liked to talk about his pleasant ways.

Who acts: England, people · What happens: be, make, like, talk · To what, where: everybody

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (England, people), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheerful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheerful	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 cheerful	advmod
4	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheerful	advcl
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 made	obj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 everybody	advmod
10	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 everybody	amod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 liked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 liked	cc
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 liked	nsubj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 land	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
18	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheerful	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 talk	mark
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 liked	xcomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 ways	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ways	nmod:poss
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ways	amod
24	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talk	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cheerful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	England		cheerful property	tree rules
2	make	past	England	everybody		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Product
3	like	past	people over the land			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	people over the land not said here		about England's pleasant ways	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about way=Topic

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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