The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 9

At this time Mr. Fitzwarren came from the Exchange, and began also to scold at the poor boy, bidding him to go to work.

Who acts: Fitzwarren · What happens: come, begin, scold, bid, go · To what, where: Exchange, Fitzwarren, work

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 (Fitzwarren), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
5	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Exchange	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Exchange	det
9	Exchange	Exchange	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
13	also	also	ADV	_	12 began	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 scold	mark
15	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 boy	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scold	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bidding	punct
21	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bidding	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bidding	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 work	case
26	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Fitzwarren Mr.		the Exchange	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from exchange=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	scold	to-infinitive	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here				at the poor boy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bid	gerund	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here	Fitzwarren				tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here		work			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location

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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