The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 68
He then ordered Mr. Whittington in, who was at this time cleaning the kitchen and would have excused himself from going into the counting-house, saying the room was swept and his shoes were dirty and full of hob-nails.
Who acts: God, shoes · What happens: order, be, excuse, go, say, sweep · To what, where: Whittington, God, counting house, room · 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 (God, shoes), 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 | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cleaning | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cleaning | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cleaning | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleaning | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kitchen | det |
| 15 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleaning | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 excused | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 excused | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 excused | aux |
| 19 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cleaning | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 excused | obj |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 excused | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 25 | counting | counting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 counting | punct |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cleaning | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 swept | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 swept | aux:pass |
| 33 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dirty | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 dirty | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 dirty | cop |
| 38 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 swept | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 full | cc |
| 40 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dirty | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 nails | case |
| 42 | hob | hob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 nails | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 hob | punct |
| 44 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 full | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | God | Whittington Mr. | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whittington=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | time | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | excuse | would · perfect | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | the counting house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | sweep | past · passive | the room | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 7 | is | past | God's shoes | dirty property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | God's shoes not said here | of hob nails | tree rules |
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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