The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 10

Whittington answered that he should be glad to work if anybody would employ him, and that he should be able if he could get some victuals to eat, for he had had nothing for three days, and he was a poor country boy, and knew nobody, and nobody would employ him.

Who acts: Whittington, anybody, victuals, nobody · What happens: answer, be, work, employ, get, eat · To what, where: Whittington, victuals, nothing, poor country boy, nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whittington, anybody, victuals, nobody), 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	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 glad	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 glad	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 glad	cop
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 glad	xcomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 employ	mark
11	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 employ	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 employ	aux
13	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 work	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 employ	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 able	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	conj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 get	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 victuals	det
27	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 get	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 had	aux
34	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 get	parataxis
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 had	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 days	case
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 days	nummod
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 nothing	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 boy	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 boy	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 boy	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 boy	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 boy	det
44	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 boy	amod
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 boy	compound
46	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 knew	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 knew	cc
49	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	parataxis
50	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	49 knew	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 employ	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 employ	cc
53	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	55 employ	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 employ	aux
55	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 knew	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 employ	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Whittington				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	should	Whittington			glad property	tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	Whittington not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	employ a condition, not said to happen	would	anybody	Whittington			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is	should	Whittington			able property	tree rules
6	get a condition, not said to happen	could	Whittington	some victuals			tree rules
7	eat	to-infinitive	some victuals not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	have	past · perfect	Whittington	nothing	for three days		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	is a	past	Whittington	a poor country boy			tree rules
10	know	past		nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
11	employ	would	nobody	Whittington			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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