Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 2

He had pleased the king in more ways than one, and so the king put a good deal of trust in him.

Who acts: man, king · What happens: have, put, deal · To what, where: king, more ways, good deal, trust

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, king), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ways	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ways	amod
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ways	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 trust	case
21	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deal	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	the king	more ways than one	pleased property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
2	put	past	the king	a good deal of trust		in man	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deal=Theme in he=Destination
3	deal			trust			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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