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title: He kept men and maids and lived most bravely; made him a park to kee… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He kept men and maids and lived most bravely; made him a park to keep deer, and time passed with him happily in his great house till the end of his days. Who acts: Tom. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 90

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He kept men and maids and lived most bravely; made him a park to keep deer, and time passed with him happily in his great house till the end of his days.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** keep, live, make, pass · **To what, where:** men, park, Tom, deer, great house

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:19:90
# text = He kept men and maids and lived most bravely; made him a park to keep deer, and time passed with him happily in his great house till the end of his days.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Tom | men and maids |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | a park | Tom |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary park=Product |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | deer |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | participle | Tom *not said here* |  |  | Tom's great house | till the end of Tom's days; time | with Tom; happily *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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