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title: Upon which, thinking they intended to make sport of him, as had been… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon which, thinking they intended to make sport of him, as had been too often the case in the kitchen, he besought his master not to mock a poor simple fellow, who intended them no harm, but let him go about his business. Who acts: shoes, God, poor simple fellow. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book»
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 70

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Upon which, thinking they intended to make sport of him, as had been too often the case in the kitchen, he besought his master not to mock a poor simple fellow, who intended them no harm, but let him go about his business.

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**Who acts:** shoes, God, poor simple fellow · **What happens:** think, intend, make, be, beseech, not mock · **To what, where:** sport, kitchen, master, poor simple fellow, shoes, God · **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 (shoes, God, poor simple fellow), 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:pg503:29:70
# text = Upon which, thinking they intended to make sport of him, as had been too often the case in the kitchen, he besought his master not to mock a poor simple fellow, who intended them no harm, but let him go about his business.
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	mock	mock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	about	about	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | shoes *= shoe* *not said here* | sport of God |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sport=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the kitchen |  | as the case; often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **beseech** | past | God | God's master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **mock** | to-infinitive |  | a poor simple fellow |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme |
| 7 | **intend** | past | a poor simple fellow | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** | infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about God's business | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location |
| 10 | **sport** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=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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