English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 92
Mr. Fitzwarren then told the men to open the great treasure they had brought with them; and said: “Mr. Whittington has nothing to do but to put it in some place of safety.”
Who acts: Mr., great treasure, Whittington · What happens: tell, open, bring, say, have, do · To what, where: men, great treasure, gentlemen, nothing, treasure, place · 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., great treasure, Whittington), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr. | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 open | mark |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasure | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 treasure | amod |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 22 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Whittington | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 has | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 nothing | acl |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 put | mark |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 has | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 place | det |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 safety | case |
| 36 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 place | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Mr. | the men | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mr. not said here | the great treasure | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the great treasure not said here | gentlemen = gentleman | with riches = rich | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mr. not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Whittington Mr. | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Whittington Mr. not said here | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | Whittington Mr. not said here | treasure | some place of safety | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination |
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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