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title: Whittington brought poor puss and delivered her to the captain, with… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Whittington brought poor puss and delivered her to the captain, with tears in his eyes, for he said he should now be disturbed by the rats and mice as much as ever. Who acts: Whittington, rats. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree a
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 26

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Whittington brought poor puss and delivered her to the captain, with tears in his eyes, for he said he should now be disturbed by the rats and mice as much as ever.

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**Who acts:** Whittington, rats · **What happens:** bring, deliver, say, disturb · **To what, where:** poor puss, cat, captain, Whittington · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, rats), 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:pg503:29:26
# text = Whittington brought poor puss and delivered her to the captain, with tears in his eyes, for he said he should now be disturbed by the rats and mice as much as ever.
1	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	puss	puss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Whittington | poor puss |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent puss=Theme |
| 2 | **deliver** | past | Whittington *not said here* | cat |  | the captain and tears in Whittington's eyes |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to captain=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Whittington |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **disturb** | should · passive | the rats and mice | Whittington |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer much=Result |

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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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