English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 100
Mr. Fitzwarren soon saw their love for each other, and proposed to join them in marriage; and to this they both readily agreed.
Who acts: Fitzwarren, clothes · What happens: see, propose, join, agree, love · To what, where: love, clothes, marriage
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 (Fitzwarren, clothes), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 saw | obl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proposed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 proposed | cc |
| 12 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 join | mark |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 proposed | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 join | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 marriage | case |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 join | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 agreed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 agreed | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 this | case |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 agreed | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 agreed | nsubj |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 25 agreed | advmod |
| 25 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Fitzwarren Mr. | clothes's love | for each; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | propose | participle | Fitzwarren Mr. not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | join | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren Mr. not said here | clothes | marriage | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | participle · passive | clothes | to this; readily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | love | clothes | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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: «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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