English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 1

In the reign of the famous King Edward III. there was a little boy called Dick Whittington, whose father and mother died when he was very young.

Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: call, be · To what, where: little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 reign	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reign	det
3	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Edward	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Edward	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Edward	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Edward	nmod:desc
8	Edward	Edward	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reign	nmod
9	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	8 Edward	flat
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reign	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 died	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 died	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 boy	acl
17	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
18	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Dick	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Dick	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mother	cc
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 father	conj
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 young	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 young	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 young	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 young	advmod
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 died	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a little boy not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a little boy		die property	tree rules
3	is	past	boy		young property	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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