The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 69

The merchant, however, made him come in, and ordered a chair to be set for him.

Who acts: merchant, God · What happens: make, come in, order, be · To what, where: God, chair

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, God), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ordered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ordered	cc
12	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chair	det
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ordered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 set	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 set	cop
17	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ordered	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the merchant	God	however property	tree rules
2	come in	infinitive	God not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	order	past		a chair		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive			for God; set property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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