English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 85
“Go send him in, and tell him of his fame; Pray call him Mr. Whittington by name.”
Who acts: you, Pray · What happens: go, send, tell, call · To what, where: King · 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 (you, Pray), 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 | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | compound |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 send | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fame | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fame | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 14 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 call | nsubj |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 call | obj |
| 17 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 call | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 name | case |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | send in a quote | imperative | you not said here | King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | King | of King's fame | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | Pray | King | by name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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