--- title: After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised Mr. Whittington to send for the ne… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised Mr. Whittington to send for the necessary people and dress himself like a gentleman, and made him the offer of his house to live in till he could provide himself with a better. Who acts: Whittington, God. 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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 (Whittington, God), 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:pg503:29:78 # text = After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised Mr. Whittington to send for the necessary people and dress himself like a gentleman, and made him the offer of his house to live in till he could provide himself with a better. 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Fitzwarren Fitzwarren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Whittington Whittington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 till till SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | | Whittington Mr. | | | after Fitzwarren Mr. | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent whittington=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Whittington Mr. *not said here* | | | | | for the necessary people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dress** | infinitive | Whittington Mr. *not said here* | Whittington | | | | like a gentleman | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | | the offer of God's house | Whittington | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary offer=Product | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **provide** | could | God | God | | | | with a better | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with good=Theme | | 7 | **offer** | | | God's house | | | | | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/79/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)