The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 32

Well, I’ll go back again, and bear all the pummelling and ill-usage of Cicely rather than miss the opportunity of being Lord Mayor!”

Who acts: I · What happens: go back, bear, miss, be, use · To what, where: pummelling, opportunity, Cicely

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 (I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bear	cc
10	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 pummelling	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pummelling	det
13	pummelling	pummelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bear	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 usage	cc
15	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 usage	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ill	punct
17	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pummelling	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Cicely	case
19	Cicely	Cicely	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 usage	nmod
20	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 miss	cc
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 rather	fixed
22	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 bear	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 opportunity	det
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 miss	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Lord	case
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 Lord	cop
27	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 opportunity	nmod
28	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lord	flat
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	future	I		again		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	bear	infinitive		all pummelling and ill usage of Cicely			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pummelling=Patient
3	miss	infinitive		the opportunity			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus
4	is	gerund				of Lord	tree rules
5	use			Cicely			nom usage «act transitive»: of=patient

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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