English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 87
He then sent for Dick, who at that time was scouring pots for the cook, and was quite dirty.
Who acts: King, Dick · What happens: send, scour, be · To what, where: Dick, pots
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 (King, Dick), 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 | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Dick | case |
| 5 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scouring | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 scouring | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scouring | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scouring | aux |
| 12 | scouring | scour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Dick | acl |
| 13 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scouring | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cook | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cook | det |
| 16 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scouring | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dirty | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dirty | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dirty | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 dirty | advmod |
| 21 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sent | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | King | Dick | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dick=Theme | |||
| 2 | scour | past · progressive | Dick | pots | time | for the cook | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Location for cook=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | past | King not said here | dirty property | tree rules |
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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