English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 66
He told his majesty; “It is not very convenient to part with her, as, when she is gone, the rats and mice may destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige your majesty, I will fetch her.”
Who acts: captain, majesty, Miss, rats · What happens: tell, not be, be, destroy, oblige, fetch · To what, where: majesty, goods, ship, Miss · 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 (captain, majesty, Miss, rats), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 convenient | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 convenient | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 convenient | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 convenient | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 convenient | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 convenient | advmod |
| 11 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 part | mark |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convenient | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 part | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 gone | mark |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 gone | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | cop |
| 22 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 convenient | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 destroy | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rats | det |
| 25 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 destroy | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mice | cc |
| 27 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rats | conj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 destroy | aux |
| 29 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 gone | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 goods | det |
| 31 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 destroy | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ship | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ship | det |
| 34 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 destroy | obl |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 oblige | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 oblige | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 oblige | mark |
| 38 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 40 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 oblige | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fetch | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 fetch | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 fetch | aux |
| 44 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 oblige | parataxis |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fetch | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 oblige | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 oblige | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | captain | captain's majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | majesty | convenient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Miss | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | may | the rats and mice | the goods | the ship | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient | |||
| 5 | oblige not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your majesty | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Patient | |||||
| 6 | fetch in a quote | future | captain | Miss | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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