The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 3

This pleased little Whittington very much, as he wanted to see London sadly, for he had heard that the streets were paved with gold, and he was willing to get a bushel of it; but how great was his disappointment, poor boy! when he saw the streets covered with dirt instead of gold, and found himself in a strange place, without a friend, without food, and without money.

Who acts: pleased little Whittington, Whittington · What happens: want, see, hear, pave, be, get · To what, where: London, streets, bushel, great disappointment, strange place · 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 (pleased little Whittington, Whittington), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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