The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 78
After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised Mr. Whittington to send for the necessary people and dress himself like a gentleman, and made him the offer of his house to live in till he could provide himself with a better.
Who acts: Whittington, God · What happens: advise, send, dress, make, live, provide · To what, where: Whittington, offer, God, house
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 (Whittington, God), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 Fitzwarren | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Fitzwarren | nsubj |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 advised | obl |
| 5 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 advised | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 send | mark |
| 9 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advised | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 send | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dress | cc |
| 15 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 send | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 dress | obj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 gentleman | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gentleman | det |
| 19 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dress | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 advised | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 offer | det |
| 25 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offer | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 live | mark |
| 30 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 made | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 provide | mark |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 provide | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 provide | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 provide | aux |
| 35 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 live | advcl |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 provide | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 better | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 better | det |
| 39 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 provide | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | Whittington Mr. | after Fitzwarren Mr. | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent whittington=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | Whittington Mr. not said here | for the necessary people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dress | infinitive | Whittington Mr. not said here | Whittington | like a gentleman | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | past | the offer of God's house | Whittington | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary offer=Product | ||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | provide | could | God | God | with a better | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with good=Theme | |||
| 7 | offer | God's house | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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