The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 37

These people received our countrymen with civility, and therefore the captain, in order to trade with them, showed them the patterns of the goods he had on board, and sent some of them to the King of the country, who was so well pleased that he sent for the captain and the factor to come to his palace, which was about a mile from the sea.

Who acts: people, captain, part, country, palace, goods · What happens: receive, trade, show, have, send, be · To what, where: countrymen, goods, board, some, King, palace

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 (people, captain, part, country), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 countrymen	nmod:poss
5	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 received	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 civility	case
7	civility	civility	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 showed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 showed	cc
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	12 captain	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 captain	det
12	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 showed	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 order	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 order	case
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 captain	appos
16	to	to	PART	_	17 trade	mark
17	trade	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 order	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trade	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 captain	punct
21	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	parataxis
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 showed	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 patterns	det
24	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 showed	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 goods	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 goods	det
27	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 patterns	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 goods	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 board	case
31	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sent	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sent	cc
34	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 showed	conj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 sent	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 some	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 King	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 King	det
40	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sent	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 country	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 country	det
43	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 King	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 pleased	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 pleased	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 pleased	cop
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 pleased	advmod
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 pleased	advmod
49	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 country	conj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 sent	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sent	nsubj
52	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 pleased	ccomp
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 captain	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 captain	det
55	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sent	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 factor	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 factor	det
58	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 captain	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 come	mark
60	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 sent	advcl
61	to	to	ADP	_	63 palace	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 palace	nmod:poss
63	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 come	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 mile	punct
65	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 mile	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 mile	cop
67	about	about	ADV	_	69 mile	advmod
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 mile	det
69	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 palace	nmod
70	from	from	ADP	_	72 sea	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 sea	det
72	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 mile	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	this people	our countrymen			with civility	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryman=Theme
2	trade	to-infinitive	the captain not said here				with captain	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
3	show	past	the captain	countrymen = countryman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient pattern=Topic
4	have	past	part	the goods not said here		board		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient
5	send	past	the captain not said here	some	the King of the country			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to king=Destination
6	is	past	the country				pleased, well property	tree rules
7	send	past	part				for the captain and the factor	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	come	to-infinitive	part not said here			part's palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
9	is a	past	part's palace	a mile		the sea	about property	tree rules
10	pattern		the goods					nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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