--- title: All the servants appeared but poor Whittington, who, having neither… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: All the servants appeared but poor Whittington, who, having neither money nor goods, could not think of sending anything to try his luck; but his good friend Miss Alice, thinking his poverty kept him away, ordered him to be called. Who acts: servants, poor Whittington, good friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, poor Whittington, good friend), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:29:22 # text = All the servants appeared but poor Whittington, who, having neither money nor goods, could not think of sending anything to try his luck; but his good friend Miss Alice, thinking his poverty kept him away, ordered him to be called. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Whittington Whittington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 15 cc _ _ 15 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 32 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 33 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | all servants | poor Whittington | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | gerund | poor Whittington | neither money nor goods | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | all servants *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **send** | gerund | all servants *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | all servants *not said here* | Whittington's luck | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Whittington's good friend *not said here* | Whittington's poverty | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poverty=Theme | | 7 | **keep away** | past | Whittington's good friend | Whittington | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 8 | **order** | past | Whittington's good friend *not said here* | | Whittington | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Whittington's good friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/23/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)