The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 13

But we return to Whittington, who could have lived happy in this worthy family had he not been bumped about by the cross cook, who must be always roasting and basting, or when the spit was idle employed her hands upon poor Whittington!

Who acts: we, cross cook · What happens: return, live, not bump, be, employ · To what, where: Whittington, worthy family, spit

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 (we, cross cook), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 return	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 return	nsubj
3	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Whittington	case
5	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 return	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lived	aux
10	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 return	conj
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lived	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 family	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 family	det
14	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 family	amod
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bumped	obl
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bumped	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bumped	nsubj:pass
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 bumped	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 bumped	aux:pass
20	bumped	bump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lived	parataxis
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 bumped	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 cook	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cook	det
24	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cook	amod
25	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bumped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 roasting	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 roasting	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 roasting	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 roasting	cop
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 roasting	advmod
31	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 cook	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 basting	cc
33	basting	basting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cook	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 employed	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 employed	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 employed	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 spit	det
38	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 employed	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 employed	aux:pass
40	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 employed	amod
41	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 return	conj
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hands	nmod:poss
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 employed	obj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 Whittington	case
45	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Whittington	amod
46	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 employed	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	present	we		Whittington			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to whittington=Result
2	live	could · perfect					happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not bump	past · perfect · passive	the cross cook and basting	Whittington		this worthy family	about property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
4	is	must	the cross cook and basting				always, roast property	tree rules
5	employ	past · passive		the spit			upon poor Whittington	tree rules

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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