The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 28

While puss was beating the billows at sea, poor Whittington was severely beaten at home by his tyrannical mistress the cook, who used him so cruelly, and made such game of him for sending his cat to sea, that at last the poor boy determined to run away from his place, and having packed up the few things he had, he set out very early in the morning on All-Hallows day.

Who acts: puss, tyrannical mistress, cook, poor boy · What happens: beat, use, make, send, determine, run away · To what, where: billows, sea, poor Whittington, home, Whittington, such game

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 (puss, tyrannical mistress, cook, poor boy), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 beating	mark
2	puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beating	aux
4	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 beaten	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 billows	det
6	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beating	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beating	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beating	punct
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Whittington	amod
11	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 beaten	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 beaten	aux:pass
13	severely	severely	ADV	_	14 beaten	advmod
14	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beaten	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 mistress	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mistress	nmod:poss
19	tyrannical	tyrannical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mistress	amod
20	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beaten	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cook	det
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mistress	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 used	nsubj
25	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cook	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 used	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 cruelly	advmod
28	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	25 used	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 beaten	parataxis
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 game	amod
33	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 game	nmod
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 sending	mark
37	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 made	advcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 cat	nmod:poss
39	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sending	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 sea	case
41	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sending	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 last	punct
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 last	nsubj
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 last	case
45	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 made	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 boy	det
47	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 boy	amod
48	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 determined	nsubj
49	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 last	acl:relcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 run	mark
51	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 determined	xcomp
52	away	away	ADV	_	51 run	advmod
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 place	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 place	nmod:poss
55	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 away	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 packed	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 packed	cc
58	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 packed	aux
59	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 beaten	conj
60	up	up	ADP	_	59 packed	compound:prt
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 things	det
62	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 things	amod
63	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 packed	obj
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 had	nsubj
65	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 things	acl:relcl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 set	punct
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 set	nsubj
68	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 packed	conj
69	out	out	ADP	_	68 set	compound:prt
70	very	very	ADV	_	71 early	advmod
71	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	68 set	advmod
72	in	in	ADP	_	74 morning	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 morning	det
74	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 set	obl
75	on	on	ADP	_	79 day	case
76	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	79 day	det
77	-	-	PUNCT	_	76 All	punct
78	Hallows	Hallows	PROPN	Number=Sing	79 day	compound
79	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 set	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 beaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past · progressive	puss	the billows	sea			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location billow=Theme
2	beat	past · passive	Whittington's tyrannical mistress	poor Whittington	home		severely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3	use	past	the cook	Whittington			cruelly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	make	past		such game of Whittington				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product
5	send	gerund		Whittington's cat	sea			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme to sea=Destination
6	determine	past	the poor boy					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	run away	to-infinitive	the poor boy not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pack up	gerund · perfect	Whittington's tyrannical mistress not said here	the few things				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination
9	have	past	puss	the few things not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
10	set out	past	puss			day; morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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