The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 14

At last Miss Alice, his master’s daughter, was informed of it, and then she took compassion on the poor boy, and made the servants treat him kindly.

Who acts: spit, servants · What happens: inform, take, make, treat · To what, where: compassion, Whittington

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 (spit, servants), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Miss	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Miss	amod
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 informed	obl
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Miss	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 daughter	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 master	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Alice	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Miss	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 informed	aux:pass
12	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 informed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 took	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 informed	parataxis
20	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 boy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 servants	det
29	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 treat	nsubj
30	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 made	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 treat	obj
32	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	30 treat	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past · passive					at last Miss; of master	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: of it=Topic
2	take	past	spit	compassion		then	on the poor boy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent compassion=Theme on boy=Destination
3	make	past	spit not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	treat	present	the servants		Whittington		kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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