The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 11

He then endeavored to get up, but he was so very weak that he fell down again, which excited so much compassion in the merchant that he ordered the servants to take him in and give him some meat and drink, and let him help the cook to do any dirty work that she had to set him about.

Who acts: Whittington, servants, cook, dirty work · What happens: endeavor, get up, be, fall down, compassion, order · To what, where: merchant, servants, Whittington, meat, cook, dirty work

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, servants, cook, dirty work), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 endeavored	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 endeavored	advmod
3	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 endeavored	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weak	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 weak	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 weak	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 weak	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 weak	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 weak	advmod
13	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 endeavored	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fell	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 weak	advcl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 compassion	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 compassion	nsubj
21	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 compassion	amod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 compassion	amod
24	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weak	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 merchant	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 merchant	det
27	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 compassion	nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ordered	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ordered	nsubj
30	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 weak	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 servants	det
32	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ordered	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ordered	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	in	in	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 give	cc
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 take	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 meat	det
41	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 drink	cc
43	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 meat	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 let	cc
46	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 endeavored	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 let	obj
48	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 cook	det
50	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 help	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 do	mark
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 help	xcomp
53	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	55 work	det
54	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 work	amod
55	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 do	obj
56	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 had	obj
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 work	acl:relcl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 set	mark
60	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 had	xcomp
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 set	obj
62	about	about	ADV	_	60 set	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 endeavored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endeavor	past	Whittington				then		tree rules
2	get up	to-infinitive	Whittington not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Whittington					weak property	tree rules
4	fall down	past	Whittington				again	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	compassion					the merchant			tree rules
6	order	past	Whittington	the servants					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the servants not said here		Whittington				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
8	give	infinitive	the servants not said here	some meat and drink	Whittington				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme
9	let	infinitive	Whittington not said here	Whittington					tree rules
10	help	infinitive	Whittington not said here	the cook					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Beneficiary clause=Theme
11	do	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	any dirty work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
12	have	past	cook	any dirty work					tree rules
13	set	to-infinitive	any dirty work not said here	Whittington				about property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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