The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 7
The man, who thought this savored of wit and impertinence (though the poor lad intended only to show his readiness to work), gave him a blow with a stick which broke his head so that the blood ran down.
Who acts: man, poor lad, stick, blood · What happens: think, savor, intend, show, give, break · To what, where: this, readiness, work, blow, lad, head
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 (man, poor lad, stick, blood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | savored | savor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wit | case |
| 9 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 savored | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 impertinence | cc |
| 11 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wit | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 intended | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 intended | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lad | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lad | amod |
| 16 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 intended | nsubj |
| 17 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 show | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 intended | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 readiness | nmod:poss |
| 22 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 show | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 work | case |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 show | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 intended | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gave | punct |
| 27 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 intended | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gave | iobj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blow | det |
| 30 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gave | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 stick | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stick | det |
| 33 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blow | nmod |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 broke | nsubj |
| 35 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stick | acl:relcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 broke | obj |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 ran | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 so | fixed |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 blood | det |
| 41 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ran | nsubj |
| 42 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 broke | advcl |
| 43 | down | down | ADV | _ | 42 ran | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the man | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | savor | participle | the man not said here | of wit and impertinence | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | intend | past | the poor lad | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | the poor lad not said here | lad's readiness | work | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent readiness=Topic to work=Recipient | |||
| 5 | give | past | the poor lad not said here | a blow | lad | with a stick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme | ||
| 6 | break | past | a stick | lad's head | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient | ||||
| 7 | run down | past | the blood | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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