The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 77
He likewise distributed presents to all the servants in the house, not forgetting even his old enemy the cook, though she little deserved it.
Who acts: God, cook · What happens: distribute, not forget, deserve · To what, where: presents, servants, house, old enemy, enemy
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, cook), 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 distributed | nsubj |
| 2 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 3 distributed | advmod |
| 3 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 distributed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 servants | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 servants | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 distributed | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 distributed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgetting | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forgetting | advmod |
| 14 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 distributed | advcl |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 enemy | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enemy | amod |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgetting | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cook | det |
| 20 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgetting | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deserved | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 deserved | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deserved | nsubj |
| 24 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 deserved | advmod |
| 25 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 distributed | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deserved | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 distributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distribute | past | God | presents | all servants | the house | likewise property | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to servant=Recipient | |
| 2 | not forget | gerund | God not said here | God's old enemy | the cook obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deserve | past | cook | enemy | little property | 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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