The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 5
In his distress he asked charity of several people, and one of them bid him “Go to work for an idle rogue.”
Who acts: wagoner, one · What happens: ask, bid, go, work, distress · To what, where: charity, distress, wagoner · 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 (wagoner, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 distress | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 distress | nmod:poss |
| 3 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 charity | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bid | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bid | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bid | obj |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 18 | Go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bid | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 work | mark |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Go | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 rogue | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rogue | det |
| 23 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rogue | amod |
| 24 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 work | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | wagoner | charity of several people | wagoner's distress | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent charity=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bid | past | one of people | wagoner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | one of people not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | one of people not said here | for a idle rogue | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rogue=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | distress | wagoner | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=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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