The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 24

Upon which poor Whittington said he had nothing but a cat which he bought for a penny that was given him.

Who acts: poor Whittington, Whittington · What happens: say, have, buy, give · To what, where: nothing, penny, 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 (poor Whittington, 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	obl
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Whittington	amod
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 had	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 cat	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 bought	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bought	nsubj
14	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nothing	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 penny	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 penny	det
17	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bought	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 given	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux:pass
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 penny	acl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	poor Whittington				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Whittington	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	buy	past				for a penny	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for penny=Beneficiary
4	give	past · passive		a penny	Whittington		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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