The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 4

Though the wagoner was so charitable as to let him walk up by the side of the wagon for nothing, he took care not to know him when he came to town, and the poor boy was, in a little time, so cold and hungry that he wished himself in a good kitchen and by a warm fire in the country.

Who acts: wagoner, poor boy · What happens: be, let, walk up, take, care, not know · To what, where: wagoner, town, good kitchen

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 (wagoner, poor boy), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	6 charitable	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wagoner	det
3	wagoner	wagoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charitable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 charitable	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 charitable	advmod
6	charitable	charitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 took	advcl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 let	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 charitable	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 walk	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 wagon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wagon	det
18	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 nothing	case
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 wagon	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 charitable	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 took	ccomp
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 know	mark
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 care	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	obj
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 came	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 town	case
33	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 time	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 time	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 boy	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 boy	amod
38	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 time	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 time	cop
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 time	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 time	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 time	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cold	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 cold	advmod
47	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 took	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 hungry	cc
49	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 cold	conj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 wished	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 wished	nsubj
52	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 cold	advcl
53	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 wished	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	57 kitchen	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 kitchen	det
56	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 kitchen	amod
57	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 wished	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 fire	cc
59	by	by	ADP	_	62 fire	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 fire	det
61	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 fire	amod
62	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 kitchen	conj
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 country	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 country	det
65	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fire	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wagoner				charitable property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	the wagoner not said here	wagoner				tree rules
3	walk up	infinitive	wagoner not said here				by the side of the wagon for nothing	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
4	take	past	wagoner					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	care	infinitive	wagoner not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not know	to-infinitive	wagoner not said here	wagoner				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	come	past	wagoner		town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
8	is	past	the poor boy			in a little time		tree rules
9	wish	past	wagoner	wagoner	a good kitchen and a warm fire in the country			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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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