--- title: This, and many other marks of kindness shown him by Miss Alice, made… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:37:43 # text = 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. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 15 made make VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 21 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 cruelly cruelly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 39 advmod _ _ 39 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ _ 40 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ _ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/44/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)