The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 75

He then applied to his mistress, and to his good friend Miss Alice, who refused to take any part of the money, but told him she heartily rejoiced at his good success, and wished him all imaginable felicity.

Who acts: God, Miss · What happens: apply, refuse, not take, tell, rejoice, wish · To what, where: Miss, part, God, good 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 (God, Miss), 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 applied	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 applied	advmod
3	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mistress	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mistress	nmod:poss
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Miss	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Miss	cc
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 friend	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Miss	obl
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obl
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Miss	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 refused	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 refused	nsubj
17	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Miss	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 refused	xcomp
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 part	det
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 money	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 money	det
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 part	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 applied	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rejoiced	nsubj
30	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	31 rejoiced	advmod
31	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 success	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 success	nmod:poss
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 success	amod
35	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rejoiced	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wished	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wished	cc
38	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 applied	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wished	obj
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 felicity	det
41	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 felicity	amod
42	felicity	felicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wished	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	past	God	Miss			then	to God's mistress	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	Miss						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not take	to-infinitive	Miss not said here	any part of the money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past			God				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	rejoice	past	Miss			God's good success		heartily property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	wish	past	God not said here	God					tree rules

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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