The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 40

“Oh! yes,” said they, “very offensive; and the King would give half his treasure to be freed of them, for they not only destroy his dinner, as you see, but they assault him in his chamber, and even in bed, so that he is obliged to be watched while he is sleeping, for fear of them.”

Who acts: vermin, King, you · What happens: say, give, free, not destroy, see, assault · To what, where: bed, treasure, dinner, King, chamber, vermin · 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 (vermin, King, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 offensive	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 offensive	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 offensive	advmod
12	offensive	offensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 give	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	21 treasure	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 treasure	nmod:poss
21	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 freed	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 freed	aux:pass
24	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 give	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 freed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 destroy	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 destroy	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 destroy	nsubj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 destroy	advmod
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 destroy	advmod
32	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 freed	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dinner	nmod:poss
34	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 destroy	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 see	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 see	nsubj
38	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 destroy	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 assault	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 assault	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 assault	nsubj
42	assault	assault	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 see	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 assault	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 chamber	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 chamber	nmod:poss
46	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 assault	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 bed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 bed	cc
49	even	even	ADV	_	51 bed	advmod
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 bed	case
51	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 obliged	punct
53	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	57 obliged	mark
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 so	fixed
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 obliged	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 obliged	aux:pass
57	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	60 watched	mark
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 watched	aux:pass
60	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 obliged	xcomp
61	while	while	SCONJ	_	64 sleeping	mark
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 sleeping	nsubj
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 sleeping	aux
64	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 watched	advcl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 fear	punct
66	for	for	ADP	_	67 fear	case
67	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 obliged	conj
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 them	case
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 fear	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
71	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	vermin		bed		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	would	the King	King's treasure			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
3	free in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here			of vermin	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: of they=Theme
4	not destroy in a quote	infinitive	vermin	King's dinner			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
5	see in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	assault in a quote	present	vermin	King	King's chamber		vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	oblige in a quote	present · passive		King			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
8	watch in a quote	to-infinitive · passive					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»
9	sleep in a quote	present · progressive	King				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	treasure in a quote		King				nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent
11	fear in a quote			vermin			nom fear «feeling 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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