The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 84
His Majesty, out of respect to his good character, conferred the honor of knighthood on him soon after.
Who acts: Majesty · What happens: confer, honor · To what, where: honor, knighthood
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 (Majesty), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 conferred | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 respect | punct |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 respect | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 respect | case |
| 6 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Majesty | appos |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 character | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 character | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 character | amod |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 respect | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Majesty | punct |
| 12 | conferred | confer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 honor | det |
| 14 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conferred | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 knighthood | case |
| 16 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honor | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knighthood | nmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 after | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | ADV | _ | 12 conferred | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 conferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confer | past | Whittington's Majesty | the honor of knighthood on Whittington | after property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | honor | knighthood on Whittington | nom honor «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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