The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 164
He made the whole family very well-to-do, bought places for his father and brothers; and by that means settled them very handsomely in the world, and, in the mean time, rose high in the King's favour.
Who acts: Thumb, that, King · What happens: make, do, buy, mean, settle, rise · To what, where: whole family, bought places, letters, world, favour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumb, that, 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 family | amod |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 do | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 do | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bought | punct |
| 13 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 places | amod |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 places | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brothers | cc |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 father | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 means | cc |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 25 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | ccomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 settled | obj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 handsomely | advmod |
| 28 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 31 world | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 settled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rose | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rose | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 and | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 time | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 time | det |
| 37 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 time | amod |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rose | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 time | punct |
| 40 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 41 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rose | xcomp |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 favour | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 King | det |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 favour | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 King | case |
| 46 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rose | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Thumb | the whole family | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Product | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Thumb not said here | bought places | for Thumb's father and brothers; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | buy | participle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | settle | past | letters = letter | the world | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 6 | rise | past | Thumb not said here | the King's favour | time | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in favour=Location | ||
| 7 | favour | the King | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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