English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 24

So the kind merchant ordered him to be taken into the house, and have a good dinner given him, and be kept to do what work he was able to do for the cook.

Who acts: kind merchant, good dinner, Dick · What happens: order, take, have, give, keep, do · To what, where: Dick, house, good dinner, work

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind merchant, good dinner, Dick), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 ordered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merchant	amod
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 taken	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 taken	aux:pass
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ordered	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dinner	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dinner	amod
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dinner	acl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kept	cc
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 kept	aux:pass
24	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 have	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	advcl
27	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	28 work	det
28	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 able	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kept	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 cook	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cook	det
36	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	past	the kind merchant		Dick			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the kind merchant not said here			the house		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into house=Destination
3	have	infinitive		a good dinner				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
4	give	participle	a good dinner not said here	Dick				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	keep	infinitive · passive						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»
6	do	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	what work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
7	is	past	Dick				able property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	Dick not said here				for the cook	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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