The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 86
He also built Newgate for criminals, and gave liberally to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and other public charities.
Who acts: Whittington · What happens: build, give · To what, where: Newgate, Bartholomew 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 built | advmod |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Newgate | Newgate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 criminals | case |
| 6 | criminals | criminal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 10 | liberally | liberally | ADV | _ | 9 gave | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Hospital | case |
| 12 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bartholomew | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Bartholomew | Bartholomew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hospital | compound |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Bartholomew | case |
| 15 | Hospital | Hospital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 charities | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 charities | amod |
| 18 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 charities | amod |
| 19 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Hospital | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Whittington | Newgate | for criminals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent newgate=Product for criminal=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | past | Whittington not said here | Bartholomew Hospital and other public charities | liberally property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hospital=Recipient |
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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