--- title: In the last year of his mayoralty he entertained King Henry V and hi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the last year of his mayoralty he entertained King Henry V and his Queen, after his conquest of France, upon which occasion the King, in consideration of Whittington’s merit, said: “Never had prince such a subject”; which being told to Whittington at the table, he replied: “Never had subject such --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/83/) [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/) / 83 # The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 83 In the last year of his mayoralty he entertained King Henry V and his Queen, after his conquest of France, upon which occasion the King, in consideration of Whittington’s merit, said: “Never had prince such a subject”; which being told to Whittington at the table, he replied: “Never had subject such a king.” **Who acts:** Whittington · **What happens:** entertain, say, not have, tell, reply, consider · **To what, where:** Henry, prince, Whittington, table, subject, merit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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:pg503:29:83 # text = In the last year of his mayoralty he entertained King Henry V and his Queen, after his conquest of France, upon which occasion the King, in consideration of Whittington’s merit, said: “Never had prince such a subject”; which being told to Whittington at the table, he replied: “Never had subject such a king.” 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mayoralty mayoralty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 entertained entertain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:desc _ _ 11 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 V V PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 conquest conquest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 25 det _ _ 25 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 consideration consideration NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 Whittington Whittington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 merit merit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 “ " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 41 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 44 det:predet _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Whittington Whittington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 58 : : PUNCT : _ 61 punct _ _ 59 “ " PUNCT `` _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 61 advmod _ _ 61 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 ccomp _ _ 62 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 63 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 65 det:predet _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **entertain** | past | Whittington | Henry King and Whittington's Queen | | | after Whittington's conquest of France and which occasion; year | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus henry=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | | prince | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | | | Whittington | the table | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to whittington=Recipient | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Whittington | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | | subject | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 7 | **consider** | | | Whittington's merit | | | | | nom consideration «cognition 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/84/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)