The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 138

He made the whole family very easy, bought places for his father and brothers, and, by that means, settled them very handsomely in the world, and, in the meantime, made his court to perfection.

Who acts: King, that, meantime · What happens: make, buy, mean, settle · To what, where: whole family, army, world, court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that, meantime), 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 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 places	punct
9	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 father	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 places	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brothers	cc
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 father	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 means	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 settled	punct
23	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 means	ccomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 settled	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 handsomely	advmod
26	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	23 settled	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 settled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 made	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 meantime	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 meantime	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 meantime	det
35	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 meantime	punct
37	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 settled	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 court	nmod:poss
39	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 perfection	case
41	perfection	perfection	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	King	the whole family		bought places for King's father and brothers obl; easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Product
2	buy	participle					vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	that				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	settle	past		army	the world	handsomely property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in world=Location
5	make	past	the meantime	King's court		to perfection	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset court=Product

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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