--- title: Jem was a beautiful boy, and everyone made much of him, and my wife… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Jem was a beautiful boy, and everyone made much of him, and my wife was so proud of him, and liked him to carry the vegetables and things to grand folks’ houses, where he was petted and made much of. Who acts: Jem, everyone, wife. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem, everyone, wife), 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:pg641:27:19 # text = Jem was a beautiful boy, and everyone made much of him, and my wife was so proud of him, and liked him to carry the vegetables and things to grand folks’ houses, where he was petted and made much of. 1 Jem Jem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’ 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 petted pet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 conj _ _ 44 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 44 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Jem | a beautiful boy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past | everyone | much | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Product | | 3 | **is** | past | my wife | | | | | of Jem; proud *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **like** | past | my wife *not said here* | Jem | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **carry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my wife *not said here* | the vegetables and things | | grand folks's houses | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vegetable=Theme to house=Destination | | 6 | **pet** | past · passive | | Jem | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | | 7 | **make** | participle | | much | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/20/) - ↑ back to [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/)