The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 85

Sir Richard many years before his death constantly fed a great number of poor citizens, built a church and a college to it, with a yearly allowance for poor scholars, and near it erected a hospital.

Who acts: death, Whittington · What happens: feed, build, erect, die · To what, where: great number, church, death, hospital

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 (death, 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	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Richard	compound
2	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 years	compound
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fed	obl:unmarked
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 fed	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	nsubj
8	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	9 fed	advmod
9	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 number	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 number	amod
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 citizens	case
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 citizens	amod
15	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 number	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 built	punct
17	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 church	det
19	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 built	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 college	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 college	det
22	college	college	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 church	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 built	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 allowance	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 allowance	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 allowance	det
28	yearly	yearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 allowance	amod
29	allowance	allowance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 built	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 scholars	case
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 scholars	amod
32	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 allowance	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 erected	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 erected	cc
35	near	near	ADP	_	37 erected	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 erected	nsubj
37	erected	erect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hospital	det
39	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 erected	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	Whittington's death	a great number of poor citizens		year	constantly property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Recipient
2	build	past	Whittington's death not said here	a church and a college	death		with a yearly allowance for poor scholars	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent church=Theme with allowance=Source
3	erect	past	death	a hospital				vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hospital=Product
4	die		Whittington					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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