The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 63
Then they told him the adventures of the cat, and showed him the cabinet of jewels which they had brought for Mr. Whittington.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: tell, show, bring, adventure · To what, where: adventures, unseasonable, cabinet, cat · 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 (eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 adventures | det |
| 6 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adventures | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 showed | cc |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 showed | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cabinet | det |
| 15 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | iobj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 jewels | case |
| 17 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cabinet | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cabinet | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Whittington | case |
| 23 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | eyes = eye | the adventures of the cat | unseasonable | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic | ||
| 2 | show | past | eyes = eye not said here | the cabinet of jewels | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cabinet=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the cabinet of jewels | for Whittington Mr. | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | adventure | the cat | nom adventure «act 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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