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title: He was so cheerful that he made everybody else cheerful; and people… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was so cheerful that he made everybody else cheerful; and people all over the land liked to talk about his pleasant ways. Who acts: England, people. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 3

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He was so cheerful that he made everybody else cheerful; and people all over the land liked to talk about his pleasant ways.

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**Who acts:** England, people · **What happens:** be, make, like, talk · **To what, where:** everybody

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (England, people), 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:pg18442:16:3
# text = He was so cheerful that he made everybody else cheerful; and people all over the land liked to talk about his pleasant ways.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | England |  |  |  |  | cheerful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | England | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Product |
| 3 | **like** | past | people over the land |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people over the land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about England's pleasant ways | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about way=Topic |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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