The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 19

The woman (as the cat was a good mouser) asked a deal of money for it, but on Whittington’s telling her he had but a penny in the world, and that he wanted a cat sadly, she let him have it.

Who acts: woman, Whittington · What happens: be, ask, tell, have, want, let · To what, where: good mouser, deal, woman, penny, world, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 mouser	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mouser	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mouser	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouser	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mouser	amod
10	mouser	mouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 mouser	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 money	case
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deal	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 money	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 telling	mark
22	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 telling	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Whittington	case
24	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 had	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 telling	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	conj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 penny	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 penny	det
30	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wanted	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wanted	cc
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 wanted	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wanted	nsubj
38	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cat	det
40	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wanted	obj
41	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	38 wanted	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 let	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 let	nsubj
44	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 let	obj
46	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 let	xcomp
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 have	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a good mouser			as the cat	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the woman	a deal of money for money				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deal=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Whittington not said here		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	have	past	Whittington	a penny		the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient
5	want	past	Whittington	a cat			sadly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme
6	let	past	woman	Whittington				tree rules
7	have	infinitive	Whittington not said here	penny				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	deal			money for money				nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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