The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 8

In this situation, and fainting for want of food, he laid himself down at the door of one Mr. Fitzwarren, a merchant, where the cook saw him, and, being an ill-natured hussy, ordered him to go about his business or she would scald him.

Who acts: situation, man, cook, natured hussy, hussy · What happens: faint, lay down, see, be, order, go · To what, where: man, situation, natured hussy, food

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 (situation, man, cook, natured hussy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 situation	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 situation	det
3	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fainting	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fainting	cc
6	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 situation	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 want	case
8	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fainting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 food	case
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 situation	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 laid	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 laid	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Fitzwarren	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Fitzwarren	nummod
21	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
22	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 door	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 merchant	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 merchant	det
25	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Fitzwarren	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 saw	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cook	det
29	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 merchant	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ordered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ordered	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hussy	punct
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 hussy	cop
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hussy	det
37	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 natured	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 ill	punct
39	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hussy	amod
40	hussy	hussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ordered	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hussy	punct
42	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 saw	advcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 ordered	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 go	mark
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 ordered	xcomp
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 business	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 business	nmod:poss
48	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 scald	cc
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 scald	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 scald	aux
52	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 go	conj
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 scald	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	faint	gerund	this situation not said here				for want of food	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lay down	past	man	man		this situation	at the door of one Fitzwarren Mr.	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in situation=Destination
3	see	past	the cook	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is a	gerund		a natured hussy				tree rules
5	order	past	a natured hussy		man			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	a natured hussy not said here				about man's business	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location
7	scald	would	hussy	man				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	want			food				nom want «state 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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