English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 106

The figure of Sir Richard Whittington with his cat in his arms, carved in stone, was to be seen till the year 1780 over the archway of the old prison of Newgate, which he built for criminals.

Who acts: Fitzwarren · What happens: carve, see, build, figure · To what, where: arms, stone, figure, Newgate, Sir Richard

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Richard	case
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Richard	compound
5	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 figure	nmod
6	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Richard	flat
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cat	nmod:poss
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Richard	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cat	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carved	punct
14	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 arms	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 stone	case
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 figure	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux:pass
19	to	to	PART	_	21 seen	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 seen	aux:pass
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 year	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obl
25	1780	1780	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 year	flat
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 archway	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 archway	det
28	archway	archway	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 year	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 prison	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 prison	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prison	amod
32	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 archway	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Newgate	case
34	Newgate	Newgate	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 prison	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 built	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 built	obj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 built	nsubj
38	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 Newgate	acl:relcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 criminals	case
40	criminals	criminal	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 built	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle		Fitzwarren's arms not said here	stone			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination
2	see	past · passive		the figure of Sir Richard with Fitzwarren's cat in Fitzwarren's arms		year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	build	past	Fitzwarren	Newgate			for criminals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for criminal=Asset
4	figure			Sir Richard with Fitzwarren's cat in Fitzwarren's arms				nom figure «communication 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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