--- title: He made the whole family very well-to-do, bought places for his fath… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: He made the whole family very well-to-do, bought places for his father and brothers; and by that means settled them very handsomely in the world, and, in the mean time, rose high in the King's favour. Who acts: Thumb, that, King. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perraul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/164/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/) / 164 # The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 164 He made the whole family very well-to-do, bought places for his father and brothers; and by that means settled them very handsomely in the world, and, in the mean time, rose high in the King's favour. **Who acts:** Thumb, that, King · **What happens:** make, do, buy, mean, settle, rise · **To what, where:** whole family, bought places, letters, world, favour · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumb, that, King), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:14:164 # text = He made the whole family very well-to-do, bought places for his father and brothers; and by that means settled them very handsomely in the world, and, in the mean time, rose high in the King's favour. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 handsomely handsomely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Thumb | the whole family | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Product | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | Thumb *not said here* | bought places | | | | for Thumb's father and brothers; well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality | | 3 | **buy** | participle | | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | that | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **settle** | past | | letters *= letter* | | the world | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in world=Location | | 6 | **rise** | past | Thumb *not said here* | | | the King's favour | time | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in favour=Location | | 7 | **favour** | | the King | | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/163/) - next →: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/165/) - ↑ back to [Upon Earth"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/14/)