English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 96
Dick next asked his mistress, and then Miss Alice, to accept a part of his good fortune; but they would not, and at the same time told him they felt great joy at his good success.
Who acts: Dick, master · What happens: ask, accept, tell, feel · To what, where: mistress, part, Dick, great joy, good success · 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 (Dick, master), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Miss | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Miss | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 Miss | advmod |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Miss | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accept | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 accept | mark |
| 13 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accept | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fortune | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 would | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 would | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 would | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 would | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 told | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 told | obl |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 told | iobj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 felt | nsubj |
| 34 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 told | ccomp |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 joy | amod |
| 36 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 felt | obj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 success | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 success | nmod:poss |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 success | amod |
| 40 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 felt | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dick | Dick's mistress | next property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient | |||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | a part of Dick's good fortune | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Dick not said here | Dick | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | feel | past | master | great joy | Dick's good success | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent joy=Theme at success=Location |
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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