--- title: At length, being shown the treasure, and convinced by them that all… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At length, being shown the treasure, and convinced by them that all of it belonged to him, he fell upon his knees and thanked the Almighty for his providential care of such a poor and miserable creature. Who acts: all, God, poor creature. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Histo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/) / 73 # The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 73 At length, being shown the treasure, and convinced by them that all of it belonged to him, he fell upon his knees and thanked the Almighty for his providential care of such a poor and miserable creature. **Who acts:** all, God, poor creature · **What happens:** show, convince, belong, fall, thank, care · **To what, where:** treasure, length, God, knees, Almighty 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 (all, God, poor creature), 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:pg503:29:73 # text = At length, being shown the treasure, and convinced by them that all of it belonged to him, he fell upon his knees and thanked the Almighty for his providential care of such a poor and miserable creature. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 convinced convince VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 thanked thank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Almighty almighty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 providential providential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 35 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 40 det:predet _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 40 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | gerund · passive | | the treasure | | length | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: treasure=Recipient | | 2 | **convince** | participle | | | | | | by hands *= hand* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **belong** | past | all | | God | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | God | | | God's knees | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | God *not said here* | the Almighty | | | | for God's providential care of such poor creature | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent almighty=Theme for care=Attribute | | 6 | **care** | | such poor creature | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/74/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)