The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 64

Besides this, she kept the house in order, tidied all the rooms, and made herself so generally useful that her brothers were delighted, and they all lived happily together.

Who acts: sister, brothers · What happens: keep, tidy, make, be, live · To what, where: house, order, rooms, sister

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, brothers), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kept	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tidied	punct
11	tidied	tidy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 rooms	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rooms	det
14	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tidied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 made	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 useful	advmod
20	generally	generally	ADV	_	21 useful	advmod
21	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 delighted	mark
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brothers	nmod:poss
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 delighted	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 delighted	cop
26	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 useful	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lived	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lived	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lived	nsubj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 lived	advmod
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	conj
32	happily	happily	ADV	_	31 lived	advmod
33	together	together	ADV	_	31 lived	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	sister	the house	order	besides this	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Location
2	tidy	past	sister not said here	all rooms			tree rules
3	make	past		sister		useful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product
4	is	past	sister's brothers			delighted property	tree rules
5	live	past	brothers = brother			happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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