The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 15

Besides the crossness of the cook, Whittington had another difficulty to get over before he could be happy.

Who acts: Whittington · What happens: have, get over, be · To what, where: difficulty

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), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	3 crossness	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crossness	det
3	crossness	crossness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossness	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 crossness	punct
8	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 difficulty	det
11	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 difficulty	acl
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 happy	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 happy	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happy	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 happy	cop
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Whittington	another difficulty	besides the crossness of the cook	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
2	get over	to-infinitive	Whittington not said here	another difficulty not said here	over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	could	Whittington		happy property	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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