The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 17
After some time, however, a gentleman who came to his master’s house gave Whittington a penny for brushing his shoes.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: come, give, brush · To what, where: house, penny, Whittington, shoes
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 (gentleman), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 gave | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 master | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 penny | det |
| 19 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 brushing | mark |
| 21 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gave | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brushing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a gentleman | Whittington's master's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a gentleman | a penny | Whittington | time | however property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whittington=Recipient penny=Theme | |
| 3 | brush | gerund | a gentleman not said here | Whittington's shoes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
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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