The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 16
He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy’s nose and disturbed him in his sleep.
Who acts: Whittington · What happens: have, place, run, disturb, order, sleep · To what, where: order, flock bed, garret, rats, nose, 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 order | case |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 order | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bed | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 11 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 flock | punct |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 master | conj |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bed | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 placed | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 garret | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 garret | det |
| 19 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 was | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 garret | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 number | det |
| 25 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rats | case |
| 27 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 number | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mice | cc |
| 29 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rats | conj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ran | obj |
| 31 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 ran | advmod |
| 32 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 rats | acl:relcl |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 38 nose | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 boy | det |
| 35 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 boy | amod |
| 36 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nose | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 boy | case |
| 38 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ran | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 disturbed | cc |
| 40 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ran | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 disturbed | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 sleep | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 44 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 disturbed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Whittington | order of Whittington's master and a flock bed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | a flock bed not said here | a garret | for Whittington | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garret=Destination | |||
| 3 | run | past | rats and mice | the poor boy's nose | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme over nose=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | disturb | past | Whittington | Whittington's sleep | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | order | Whittington's master and a flock bed | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | sleep | Whittington | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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