English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 5

He thought that this waggon must be going to the fine town of London; so he took courage, and asked the waggoner to let him walk with him by the side of the waggon.

Who acts: Dick, waggon · What happens: think, go, take, ask, let, walk · To what, where: fine town, courage, waggoner, Dick · 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, waggon), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 waggon	det
5	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	amod
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 London	case
14	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 town	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 took	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
19	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 waggoner	det
24	waggoner	waggoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 asked	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 let	mark
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 asked	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 walk	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 side	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walk	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 waggon	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 waggon	det
36	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Dick				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	must · progressive	this waggon		the fine town of London		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	take	past	Dick	courage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Dick not said here	the waggoner			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent waggoner=Recipient clause=Topic
5	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		Dick			tree rules
6	walk	infinitive	Dick not said here			with Dick; by the side of the waggon	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory

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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