The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 30
“Turn again, Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London.”
Who acts: you · What happens: turn · To what, where: Whittington
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 2 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 Turn | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Whittington | punct |
| 5 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Turn | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 7 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mayor | compound |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mayor | compound |
| 9 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Turn | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 London | case |
| 11 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mayor | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Whittington | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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