The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 18

This he put into his pocket, being determined to lay it out to the best advantage; and the next day, seeing a woman in the street with a cat under her arm, he ran up to know the price of it.

Who acts: This, Whittington · What happens: put, be, lay out, see, run up, know · To what, where: pocket, woman, street, price

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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 put	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pocket	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 determined	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 determined	cop
9	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 put	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lay	mark
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 determined	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 lay	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 advantage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 advantage	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 advantage	amod
17	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 day	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 day	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seeing	punct
24	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 put	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seeing	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 street	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 street	det
29	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seeing	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 cat	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cat	det
32	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seeing	obl
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 arm	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 arm	nmod:poss
35	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seeing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ran	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ran	nsubj
38	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 ran	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	41 know	mark
41	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ran	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 price	det
43	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 know	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 price	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	This		Whittington's pocket	day		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	This not said here				determined property	tree rules
3	lay out	to-infinitive	This not said here	pocket			to the best advantage	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
4	see	gerund	This not said here	a woman	the street		with a cat; under cat's arm	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	run up	past	Whittington					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	to-infinitive	Whittington not said here	the price of price				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus

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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