The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 71

The merchant, taking him by the hand, said: “Indeed, Mr. Whittington, I am in earnest with you, and sent for you to congratulate you on your great success.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: take, say, be, send, congratulate · To what, where: God, you, great success · 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 (merchant), 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 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
4	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 merchant	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taking	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Whittington	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Whittington	punct
13	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 Whittington	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Indeed	punct
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Whittington	nmod:desc
16	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 earnest	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 earnest	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 earnest	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 earnest	case
21	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 Whittington	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 earnest	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sent	cc
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 sent	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 congratulate	mark
30	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sent	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 congratulate	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 success	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 success	nmod:poss
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 success	amod
35	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 congratulate	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the merchant not said here		God		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the merchant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the merchant = merchant				with you; earn property	tree rules
4	send in a quote	participle	the merchant not said here				for you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	congratulate in a quote	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here	you		your great success		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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