English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 9

Little Dick was all night in the streets; and next morning, being very hungry, he got up and walked about, and asked everybody he met to give him a halfpenny to keep him from starving; but nobody stayed to answer him, and only two or three gave him a halfpenny; so that the poor boy was soon quite weak and faint for the want of victuals.

Who acts: Little Dick, Dick, nobody, two, poor boy · What happens: be, get up, walk, ask, meet, give · To what, where: night, streets, everybody, halfpenny, Dick, victuals · 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 (Little Dick, Dick, nobody, two), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dick	amod
2	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 streets	det
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 night	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 morning	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 morning	cc
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hungry	punct
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 hungry	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 hungry	advmod
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 got	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hungry	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 got	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walked	cc
22	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 got	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 walked	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 got	conj
27	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 asked	iobj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 met	nsubj
29	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asked	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 give	mark
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 met	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 halfpenny	det
34	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 keep	mark
36	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 give	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 keep	obj
38	from	from	SCONJ	_	39 starving	mark
39	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 keep	advcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 stayed	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 stayed	cc
42	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 stayed	nsubj
43	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asked	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 answer	mark
45	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 stayed	advcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 answer	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 gave	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 gave	cc
49	only	only	ADV	_	50 two	advmod
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 gave	nsubj
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 three	cc
52	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 two	conj
53	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 stayed	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 gave	iobj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 halfpenny	det
56	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 gave	obj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 weak	punct
58	so	so	SCONJ	_	66 weak	mark
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	66 weak	mark
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 boy	det
61	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 boy	amod
62	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 weak	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 weak	cop
64	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	66 weak	advmod
65	quite	quite	ADV	_	66 weak	advmod
66	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	conj
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 faint	cc
68	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 weak	conj
69	for	for	ADP	_	71 want	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 want	det
71	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 weak	obl
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 victuals	case
73	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 want	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Little Dick	all night		the streets		tree rules
2	is	gerund					hungry property	tree rules
3	get up	past	Dick					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	walk	past	Dick not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	Dick not said here		everybody			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient clause=Topic
6	meet	past	Dick					tree rules
7	give	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	a halfpenny	Dick			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient halfpenny=Theme
8	keep	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	Dick				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	starve	gerund	Dick not said here					tree rules
10	stay	past	nobody					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		Dick			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
12	give	past	two	a halfpenny	Dick			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient halfpenny=Theme
13	is	past	the poor boy				for the want of victuals; soon, weak property	tree rules
14	be		the poor boy not said here					tree rules
15	want			victuals				nom want «state 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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