The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 82
Mr. Whittington served as Sheriff of London and was three times Lord Mayor.
Who acts: Whittington · What happens: serve, be · To what, where: three times
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), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 served | nsubj |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Sheriff | case |
| 5 | Sheriff | Sheriff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 served | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 London | case |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sheriff | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 times | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 times | cop |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 served | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mayor | compound |
| 13 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 times | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | Whittington Mr. | as Sheriff of London | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as sheriff=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | three times | 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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