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title: He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour of knighthood by Henry V. Who acts: Fitzwarren, Sheriff. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 104

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He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour of knighthood by Henry V.

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**Who acts:** Fitzwarren, Sheriff · **What happens:** be, receive, honour · **To what, where:** Sheriff, honour, knighthood

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fitzwarren, Sheriff), 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:pg7439:37:104
# text = He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour of knighthood by Henry V.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Sheriff	Sheriff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fitzwarren | Sheriff and thrice Lord |  |  |  | of London | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | past | Sheriff and thrice Lord | the honour of knighthood |  |  |  | by Henry | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent honour=Theme by henry=Location |
| 3 | **honour** |  |  | knighthood |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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