Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 36

On the arch-way in front of the prison was a figure, cut in stone, of Sir Richard Whittington and his cat; and for three hundred years this figure was shown to all who visited London.

Who acts: figure · What happens: be, cut, show, visit · To what, where: figure, arch-way, stone, all, London

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 arch-way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arch-way	det
3	arch-way	arch-way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 figure	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arch-way	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 prison	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prison	det
8	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 figure	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 figure	det
11	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 figure	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 stone	case
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Richard	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Richard	case
18	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Richard	compound
19	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
20	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Richard	flat
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cat	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cat	nmod:poss
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Richard	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 shown	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shown	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 years	case
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hundred	compound
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shown	obl
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 figure	det
31	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shown	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shown	aux:pass
33	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 figure	acl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 shown	obl
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 visited	nsubj
37	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 all	acl:relcl
38	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 visited	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 figure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a figure		the arch-way in front of the prison			tree rules
2	cut	participle		a figure not said here		stone		of Sir Richard and Richard's cat	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of richard=Location
3	show	past · passive	a figure not said here	this figure	all		year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to all=Recipient
4	visit	past		London					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=Co-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: «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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