English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 83
They then told the story of the cat, and showed the rich present that the king and queen had sent for her to poor Dick.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: tell, show, send · To what, where: story, rich present, king, poor 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 (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 showed | cc |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 present | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 present | amod |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 queen | cc |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | conj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 showed | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Dick | case |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Dick | amod |
| 26 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | eyes = eye | the story of the cat | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show | past | eyes = eye not said here | the rich present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent present=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send | past · perfect · passive | the king and queen | poor Dick | for queen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dick=Destination |
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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