The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 73

At length, being shown the treasure, and convinced by them that all of it belonged to him, he fell upon his knees and thanked the Almighty for his providential care of such a poor and miserable creature.

Who acts: all, God, poor creature · What happens: show, convince, belong, fall, thank, care · To what, where: treasure, length, God, knees, Almighty

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 (all, God, poor creature), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shown	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shown	aux:pass
5	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shown	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 convinced	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 convinced	cc
10	convinced	convince	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shown	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 convinced	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 belonged	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 belonged	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 all	nmod
17	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 convinced	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 belonged	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shown	parataxis
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 knees	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 knees	nmod:poss
25	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fell	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thanked	cc
27	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fell	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Almighty	det
29	Almighty	almighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thanked	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 care	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 care	nmod:poss
32	providential	providential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 care	amod
33	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thanked	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	40 creature	case
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	40 creature	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 creature	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 creature	amod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 miserable	cc
39	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 poor	conj
40	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 care	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	gerund · passive		the treasure		length		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: treasure=Recipient
2	convince	participle					by hands = hand	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	belong	past	all		God			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	God			God's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location
5	thank speech: thank	past	God not said here	the Almighty			for God's providential care of such poor creature	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent almighty=Theme for care=Attribute
6	care		such poor creature					nom care «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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