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title: He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy’s nose and disturbed him in his sleep. Who acts: Whittington. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its de
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 16

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He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy’s nose and disturbed him in his sleep.

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**Who acts:** Whittington · **What happens:** have, place, run, disturb, order, sleep · **To what, where:** order, flock bed, garret, rats, nose, Whittington

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whittington), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:29:16
# text = He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy’s nose and disturbed him in his sleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Whittington | order of Whittington's master and a flock bed |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | a flock bed *not said here* |  | a garret |  | for Whittington | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garret=Destination |
| 3 | **run** | past |  | rats and mice |  | the poor boy's nose |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme over nose=Trajectory |
| 4 | **disturb** | past |  | Whittington |  | Whittington's sleep |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **order** |  |  | Whittington's master and a flock bed |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | Whittington |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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