The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 76
He then gratified the captain, factor, and the ship’s crew for the care they had taken of his cargo.
Who acts: God, captain · What happens: gratify, take · To what, where: captain, care
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, captain), 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 gratified | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gratified | advmod |
| 3 | gratified | gratify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captain | det |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gratified | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 factor | punct |
| 7 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captain | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crew | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 13 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gratified | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 care | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 care | det |
| 16 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crew | nmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taken | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 care | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cargo | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cargo | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gratified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gratify | past | God | the captain and factor | then | the ship's crew for the care obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus captain=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | captain | the care not said here | of God's cargo | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of cargo=Initial_Location |
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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