English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 86

Mr. Fitzwarren now showed himself to be a good man; for when some of his servants said so great a treasure was too much for him, he answered: “God forbid I should deprive him of the value of a single penny, it is his own, and he shall have it to a farthing.”

Who acts: Mr., some, treasure, King, God · What happens: show, be, say, answer, forbid, deprive · To what, where: King, good man, treasure, single penny · 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 (Mr., some, treasure, King), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 showed	nsubj
2	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr.	flat
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 showed	advmod
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 showed	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	10 man	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 said	advmod
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 said	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 servants	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 servants	nmod:poss
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 some	nmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 showed	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 great	advmod
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 treasure	det
22	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 much	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 much	cop
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 much	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 answered	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 answered	nsubj
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 showed	parataxis
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 deprive	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 forbid	punct
33	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 forbid	nsubj
34	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 deprive	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 deprive	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 deprive	aux
37	deprive	deprive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 answered	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 deprive	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 value	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 value	det
41	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 deprive	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 penny	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 penny	det
44	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 penny	amod
45	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 value	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 own	punct
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 own	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 own	cop
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 own	nmod:poss
50	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 deprive	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 have	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 have	cc
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 have	nsubj
54	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 have	aux
55	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 showed	parataxis
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 have	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 farthing	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 farthing	det
59	farthing	farthing	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 have	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 have	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	55 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Mr.		King	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		a good man				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	some				great property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	a treasure				for King; much property	tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	past	King					tree rules
6	forbid in a quote	infinitive	God					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
7	deprive in a quote	should	King	King			of the value of a single penny	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of value=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	treasure				own property	tree rules
9	have in a quote	shall	King	treasure			to a farthing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
10	value in a quote			a single penny				nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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