English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 56
When the captain saw this, he sent patterns of the best things he had to the king of the country; who was so much pleased with them, that he sent for the captain to the palace.
Who acts: captain, best things · What happens: see, send, have, be, pattern · To what, where: this, patterns, best things, palace
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 (captain, best things), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 things | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 things | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 patterns | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 pleased | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 pleased | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pleased | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 pleased | advmod |
| 27 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pleased | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sent | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 sent | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sent | nsubj |
| 33 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 captain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 captain | det |
| 36 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sent | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sent | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the captain | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | captain | patterns of the best things | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | captain | the best things not said here | to the king of the country | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | the best things | with things = thing; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | past | captain | the palace | for the captain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to palace=Destination | |||
| 6 | pattern | the best things | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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