English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 50

“Why, to be sure, I would put up with almost anything now, to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in a fine coach, when I grow to be a man!

Who acts: Lord Mayor · What happens: be, put up, ride, grow · To what, where: Lord Mayor, fine coach, man · 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 (Lord Mayor), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sure	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sure	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sure	cop
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sure	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 anything	case
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 anything	advmod
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 put	obl
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 put	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Mayor	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	20 Mayor	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 Mayor	cop
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Mayor	compound
20	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 London	case
22	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Mayor	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ride	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ride	cc
25	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 coach	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 coach	det
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coach	amod
29	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ride	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grow	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 grow	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 grow	nsubj
33	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 ride	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	37 man	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 man	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grow	xcomp
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	to-infinitive					sure property	tree rules
2	put up in a quote	would	Lord Mayor of London = mayor			now	with anything	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		Lord Mayor			of London	tree rules
4	ride in a quote	present			a fine coach			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	grow in a quote	present	Lord Mayor of London = mayor					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	Lord Mayor of London = mayor not said here	a man				tree rules

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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