The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 31
“Lord Mayor of London!” said he to himself, “what would not one endure to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in such a fine coach?
Who acts: Lord Mayor, one · What happens: say, not endure, be, ride · To what, where: Mayor, Lord Mayor, fine coach · 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 (Lord Mayor, one), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mayor | compound |
| 3 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 London | case |
| 5 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mayor | nmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mayor | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mayor | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 endure | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 endure | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 endure | obj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 endure | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 endure | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 endure | nsubj |
| 18 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 Mayor | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Mayor | cop |
| 21 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mayor | compound |
| 22 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 endure | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 London | case |
| 24 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mayor | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ride | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ride | cc |
| 27 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 coach | case |
| 29 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 coach | det:predet |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 coach | det |
| 31 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 coach | amod |
| 32 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ride | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Lord Mayor of London | Mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not endure in a quote | would | one | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Circumstance | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Lord Mayor | of London | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ride in a quote | present | Lord Mayor of London not said here | such fine coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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