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title: The factor jumped for joy; he remembered poor Whittington and his ca… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The factor jumped for joy; he remembered poor Whittington and his cat, and told the King he had a creature on board the ship that would despatch all these vermin immediately. Who acts: factor, King, ship. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its depend
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 41

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The factor jumped for joy; he remembered poor Whittington and his cat, and told the King he had a creature on board the ship that would despatch all these vermin immediately.

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**Who acts:** factor, King, ship · **What happens:** jump, remember, tell, have, despatch · **To what, where:** poor Whittington, King, creature, ship, vermin · **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 (factor, King, ship), 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:pg503:29:41
# text = The factor jumped for joy; he remembered poor Whittington and his cat, and told the King he had a creature on board the ship that would despatch all these vermin immediately.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	board	board	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	despatch	despatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	vermin	vermin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the factor |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | past | factor | poor Whittington and factor's cat |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | factor *not said here* |  | the King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | King | a creature |  | the ship |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 5 | **despatch** | would | the ship | all vermin |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |

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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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