English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 46

He walked as far as Holloway; and there sat down on a stone, which to this day is called “Whittington's Stone,” and began to think to himself which road he should take.

Who acts: Dick, road · What happens: walk, sit down, call, begin, think, take · To what, where: stone, Dick, road · 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 (Dick, road), 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	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 Holloway	case
6	Holloway	Holloway	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 called	nsubj:pass
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 which	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stone	acl:relcl
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Stone	punct
23	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Stone	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Whittington	case
25	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Stone	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 Stone	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 think	mark
31	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 think	obl
34	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	35 road	det
35	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 think	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 take	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 take	aux
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 road	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Dick				as Holloway; far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past				a stone; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
3	call	present · passive		a stone				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	which road		Dick			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	should	Dick	which road not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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