English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 98
After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised him to send for a proper tailor and get himself dressed like a gentleman; and told him he was welcome to live in his house till he could provide himself with a better.
Who acts: Fitzwarren · What happens: advise, send, get, dress, tell, be · To what, where: Fitzwarren, house · 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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 Fitzwarren | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Fitzwarren | nsubj |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 advised | obl |
| 5 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 advised | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 send | mark |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advised | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 tailor | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tailor | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tailor | amod |
| 12 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 send | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 get | xcomp |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 gentleman | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gentleman | det |
| 19 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dressed | obl:agent |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 advised | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 welcome | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 welcome | cop |
| 26 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 told | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 welcome | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 live | obl |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 provide | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 provide | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 provide | aux |
| 35 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 live | advcl |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 provide | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 better | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 better | det |
| 39 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 provide | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | Fitzwarren | after Fitzwarren Mr. | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren not said here | for a proper tailor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | Fitzwarren not said here | Fitzwarren | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dress | participle | Fitzwarren not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Fitzwarren | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Fitzwarren | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren not said here | Fitzwarren's house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 8 | provide | could | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | with a better | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with good=Theme |
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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