English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 43

This, and many other marks of kindness shown him by Miss Alice, made the ill-tempered cook jealous of poor Dick, and she began to use him more cruelly than ever, and always made game of him for sending his cat to sea.

Who acts: This, Miss · What happens: show, make, temper, begin, use, send · To what, where: kindness, Dick, tempered cook, game, cat, sea

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 (This, Miss), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 made	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marks	amod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marks	amod
6	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 kindness	case
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marks	nmod
9	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 kindness	acl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shown	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 Miss	case
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shown	obl
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Miss	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 marks	punct
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cook	det
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tempered	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 ill	punct
19	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cook	amod
20	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
21	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cook	amod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Dick	case
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Dick	amod
24	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 jealous	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 use	mark
30	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	obj
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 cruelly	advmod
33	cruelly	cruelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 use	xcomp
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 cruelly	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 made	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 made	cc
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 made	advmod
39	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 made	parataxis
40	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 made	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 game	nmod
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 sending	mark
44	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 made	advcl
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 cat	nmod:poss
46	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sending	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 sea	case
48	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sending	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	participle		kindness not said here	Dick		by Miss	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	make	past	This	the tempered cook				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cook=Product
3	temper	participle						tree rules
4	begin	past	Miss					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	use	to-infinitive	Miss not said here	Dick			cruelly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	make	participle		game of Dick			always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	send	gerund		Dick's cat		sea		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme to sea=Destination
8	mark			kindness				nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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