The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 45

He told his Majesty that it would be inconvenient to part with her, as, when she was gone, the rats and mice might destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige his Majesty he would fetch her.

Who acts: factor, Majesty, Miss, rats · What happens: tell, be, destroy, oblige, fetch · To what, where: Majesty, goods, ship, Miss · 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 (factor, Majesty, Miss, rats), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Majesty	nmod:poss
4	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 inconvenient	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 inconvenient	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 inconvenient	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 inconvenient	cop
9	inconvenient	inconvenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 part	mark
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inconvenient	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 part	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 gone	mark
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 gone	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 destroy	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rats	det
23	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 destroy	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mice	cc
25	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rats	conj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 destroy	aux
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gone	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 goods	det
29	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 destroy	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 ship	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ship	det
32	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 destroy	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 oblige	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 oblige	cc
35	to	to	PART	_	36 oblige	mark
36	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 Majesty	nmod:poss
38	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 oblige	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fetch	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fetch	aux
41	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 oblige	parataxis
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fetch	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	factor		factor's Majesty			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	would	Majesty				inconvenient property	tree rules
3	is	past	Miss				gone property	tree rules
4	destroy	might	the rats and mice	the goods		the ship		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient
5	oblige	to-infinitive	factor not said here	factor's Majesty				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Patient
6	fetch	would	factor	Miss				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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