English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 31
A gentleman having given Dick a penny for cleaning his shoes, he thought he would buy a cat with it.
Who acts: gentleman, penny, Dick · What happens: have, give, clean, think, buy · To what, where: given Dick, shoes, cat · 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 (gentleman, penny, Dick), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gentleman | det |
| 2 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 gentleman | acl |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Dick | amod |
| 5 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 penny | det |
| 7 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 cleaning | mark |
| 9 | cleaning | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 penny | acl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cleaning | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gentleman | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 buy | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 buy | aux |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buy | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 buy | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | a gentleman not said here | given Dick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | clean | gerund | a penny not said here | Dick's shoes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | a gentleman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | buy | would | Dick | a cat | with cat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
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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