The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 70

Upon which, thinking they intended to make sport of him, as had been too often the case in the kitchen, he besought his master not to mock a poor simple fellow, who intended them no harm, but let him go about his business.

Who acts: shoes, God, poor simple fellow · What happens: think, intend, make, be, beseech, not mock · To what, where: sport, kitchen, master, poor simple fellow, shoes, God · 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 (shoes, God, poor simple fellow), 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 thinking	mark
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 thinking	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 besought	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 intended	nsubj
6	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 intended	xcomp
9	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sport	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 case	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	19 case	case
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 case	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 case	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 often	advmod
17	often	often	ADV	_	19 case	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 case	det
19	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 case	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 besought	nsubj
25	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 mock	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 besought	obj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 mock	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 mock	mark
30	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fellow	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fellow	amod
33	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fellow	amod
34	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mock	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 intended	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 intended	nsubj
37	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fellow	acl:relcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 intended	obj
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 harm	det
40	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 intended	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 let	cc
43	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 mock	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 let	obj
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 let	xcomp
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 business	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 business	nmod:poss
48	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 mock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	intend	past	shoes = shoe				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	shoes = shoe not said here	sport of God			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sport=Product
4	is	past · perfect			the kitchen	as the case; often property	tree rules
5	beseech	past	God	God's master			tree rules
6	not mock	to-infinitive		a poor simple fellow			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme
7	intend	past	a poor simple fellow	shoes = shoe			tree rules
8	let	infinitive		God			tree rules
9	go	infinitive	God not said here			about God's business	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location
10	sport		God				nom sport «act intransitive»: of=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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