The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 22

All the servants appeared but poor Whittington, who, having neither money nor goods, could not think of sending anything to try his luck; but his good friend Miss Alice, thinking his poverty kept him away, ordered him to be called.

Who acts: servants, poor Whittington, good friend · What happens: appear, have, not think, send, try, think · To what, where: poor Whittington, money, anything, luck, poverty, Whittington · 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 (servants, poor Whittington, good friend), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 servants	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servants	det
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 Whittington	cc
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Whittington	amod
7	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 having	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Whittington	acl:relcl
12	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obj
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 goods	cc
15	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 money	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 think	advmod
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appeared	conj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 sending	mark
21	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 think	advcl
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 sending	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sending	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 luck	nmod:poss
26	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 try	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 kept	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 kept	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friend	nmod:poss
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 friend	amod
31	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kept	nsubj
32	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 friend	appos
33	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Miss	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thinking	punct
35	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 friend	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 poverty	nmod:poss
37	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thinking	obj
38	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kept	obj
40	away	away	ADV	_	38 kept	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ordered	punct
42	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 kept	advcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 ordered	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	46 called	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 called	aux:pass
46	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 ordered	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	all servants	poor Whittington			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	gerund	poor Whittington	neither money nor goods			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	not think speech: other	could	all servants not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send	gerund	all servants not said here	anything			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
5	try	to-infinitive	all servants not said here	Whittington's luck			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	gerund	Whittington's good friend not said here	Whittington's poverty			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poverty=Theme
7	keep away	past	Whittington's good friend	Whittington		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	order	past	Whittington's good friend not said here		Whittington		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	call not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Whittington's good friend not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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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