The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 65
“Go, send him in, and tell him of his fame, And call him Mr. Whittington by name.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, send, tell, call · To what, where: unseasonable · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 send | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 send | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fame | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fame | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 call | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 call | cc |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 call | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | unseasonable | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | unseasonable | of unseasonable's fame | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | call in a quote | infinitive | unseasonable | by name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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