English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 90

Mr. Fitzwarren ordered a chair to be set for him, and so he began to think they were making game of him, at the same time said to them: “Do not play tricks with a poor simple boy, but let me go down again, if you please, to my work.”

Who acts: Fitzwarren, shoes, King, my · What happens: order, be, begin, think, make, say · To what, where: chair, game, same time, shoes, tricks, 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 (Fitzwarren, shoes, King, my), 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	2 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
2	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chair	det
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 set	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 set	cop
8	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ordered	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 began	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 think	mark
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 making	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 making	aux
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 think	ccomp
21	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 game	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 time	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obl
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 time	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 play	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 play	punct
34	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 play	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 play	advmod
36	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 making	parataxis
37	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 play	obj
38	with	with	SCONJ	_	42 boy	mark
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 boy	det
40	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boy	amod
41	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boy	amod
42	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 play	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 let	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 let	cc
45	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 play	conj
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 let	obj
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 let	xcomp
48	down	down	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
49	again	again	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 work	punct
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 work	mark
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 work	nsubj
53	please	please	INTJ	_	57 work	discourse
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 work	punct
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 work	case
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 work	nmod:poss
57	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 go	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Fitzwarren Mr.	a chair				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here				for Fitzwarren; set property	tree rules
3	begin	past	Fitzwarren					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Fitzwarren not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	past · progressive	shoes = shoe	game of Fitzwarren		time		tree rules
6	say speech: assert	participle		the same time not said here	shoes = shoe			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
7	not play in a quote	infinitive · do-support		tricks				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
8	let in a quote	infinitive		King				tree rules
9	go down in a quote	infinitive	King not said here			again	to my work; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	work in a quote		my					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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