The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 74

He then laid all the treasure at his master’s feet, who refused to take any part of it, but told him he heartily rejoiced at his prosperity, and hoped the wealth he had acquired would be a comfort to him, and would make him happy.

Who acts: God, feet, wealth · What happens: lay, refuse, not take, tell, rejoice, hope · To what, where: treasure, feet, part, God, prosperity, wealth · 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, feet, wealth), 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 laid	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laid	advmod
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 treasure	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 treasure	det
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 feet	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 master	case
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 refused	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 refused	nsubj
14	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feet	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 refused	xcomp
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 part	det
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 part	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rejoiced	nsubj
26	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	27 rejoiced	advmod
27	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	ccomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 prosperity	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 prosperity	nmod:poss
30	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rejoiced	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hoped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hoped	cc
33	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rejoiced	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wealth	det
35	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 comfort	nsubj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 acquired	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 acquired	aux
38	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 wealth	acl:relcl
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 comfort	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 comfort	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 comfort	det
42	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hoped	ccomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hoped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 make	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 make	cc
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 make	aux
48	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rejoiced	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 make	obj
50	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 make	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	God	all treasure		God's master's feet	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme at foot=Destination
2	refuse	past	God's master's feet						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not take	to-infinitive	God's master's feet not said here	any part of treasure					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	God not said here		God				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	rejoice	past	God			God's prosperity		heartily property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hope	past	God not said here		God				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	acquire	past · perfect	God	the wealth not said here					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme
8	is a	would	the wealth	a comfort					tree rules
9	make	would	God not said here	God				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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