English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 88

He would have excused himself from coming into the counting-house, saying, “The room is swept, and my shoes are dirty and full of hob-nails.”

Who acts: King, shoes · What happens: excuse, come, say, sweep, be · To what, where: King, counting house, room · 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 (King, shoes), 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	4 excused	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 excused	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 excused	aux
4	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 excused	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 coming	mark
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 excused	advcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
10	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 counting	punct
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 coming	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swept	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 swept	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swept	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 swept	aux:pass
20	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 saying	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dirty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dirty	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoes	nmod:poss
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dirty	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dirty	cop
26	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 excused	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 full	cc
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dirty	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 nails	case
30	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nails	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 hob	punct
32	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 full	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 excused	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 excused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	excuse	would · perfect	King	King			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	come	gerund	King not said here		the counting house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sweep in a quote	present · passive		the room			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
5	is in a quote	present	my shoes			dirty property	tree rules
6	be in a quote		my shoes not said here			of hob nails	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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