The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 19

Jem was a beautiful boy, and everyone made much of him, and my wife was so proud of him, and liked him to carry the vegetables and things to grand folks’ houses, where he was petted and made much of.

Who acts: Jem, everyone, wife · What happens: be, make, like, carry, pet · To what, where: beautiful boy, much, Jem, vegetables, houses

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem, everyone, wife), 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	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 much	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proud	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 proud	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 proud	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 proud	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 proud	advmod
19	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 proud	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 liked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 liked	cc
24	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 proud	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 liked	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 carry	mark
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 liked	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vegetables	det
29	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carry	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 things	cc
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 vegetables	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 houses	case
33	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 folks	amod
34	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 houses	nmod:poss
35	’	's	PART	_	34 folks	case
36	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carry	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 petted	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 petted	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 petted	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 petted	aux:pass
41	petted	pet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 houses	acl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 petted	conj
44	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 made	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	44 much	fixed
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Jem	a beautiful boy			tree rules
2	make	past	everyone	much			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Product
3	is	past	my wife			of Jem; proud property	tree rules
4	like	past	my wife not said here	Jem			tree rules
5	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	my wife not said here	the vegetables and things	grand folks's houses		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vegetable=Theme to house=Destination
6	pet	past · passive		Jem			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
7	make	participle		much			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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