The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 27

All the company laughed at the adventure but Miss Alice, who pitied the poor boy, and gave him something to buy another cat.

Who acts: company, adventure · What happens: laugh, pity, give, buy · To what, where: adventure, poor boy, something, company, cat

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 (company, adventure), 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 company	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 adventure	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 adventure	det
7	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 Miss	cc
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 adventure	conj
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Miss	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pitied	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pitied	nsubj
13	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 adventure	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pitied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 gave	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 buy	mark
23	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 something	acl
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 cat	det
25	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 buy	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	past	all company			the adventure but Miss	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pity	past	the adventure but Miss	the poor boy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	give	past	all company not said here	something	company		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
4	buy	to-infinitive	all company not said here	another cat			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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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