English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 104
He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour of knighthood by Henry V.
Who acts: Fitzwarren, Sheriff · What happens: be, receive, honour · To what, where: Sheriff, honour, knighthood
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, Sheriff), 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 Sheriff | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Sheriff | cop |
| 3 | Sheriff | Sheriff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 received | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 London | case |
| 5 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sheriff | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lord | punct |
| 7 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lord | amod |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sheriff | conj |
| 9 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lord | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 received | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 received | cc |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 honour | det |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 knighthood | case |
| 16 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honour | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Henry | case |
| 18 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obl |
| 19 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Henry | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fitzwarren | Sheriff and thrice Lord | of London | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | past | Sheriff and thrice Lord | the honour of knighthood | by Henry | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent honour=Theme by henry=Location | |||
| 3 | honour | knighthood | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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