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title: The figure of Sir Richard Whittington with his cat in his arms, carv… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The figure of Sir Richard Whittington with his cat in his arms, carved in stone, was to be seen till the year 1780 over the archway of the old prison of Newgate, which he built for criminals. Who acts: Fitzwarren. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with it
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 106

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The figure of Sir Richard Whittington with his cat in his arms, carved in stone, was to be seen till the year 1780 over the archway of the old prison of Newgate, which he built for criminals.

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**Who acts:** Fitzwarren · **What happens:** carve, see, build, figure · **To what, where:** arms, stone, figure, Newgate, Sir Richard

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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), 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:pg7439:37:106
# text = The figure of Sir Richard Whittington with his cat in his arms, carved in stone, was to be seen till the year 1780 over the archway of the old prison of Newgate, which he built for criminals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	1780	1780	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	archway	archway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Newgate	Newgate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	criminals	criminal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | Fitzwarren's arms *not said here* |  | stone |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | the figure of Sir Richard with Fitzwarren's cat in Fitzwarren's arms |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **build** | past | Fitzwarren | Newgate |  |  |  | for criminals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent which=Product for criminal=Asset |
| 4 | **figure** |  |  | Sir Richard with Fitzwarren's cat in Fitzwarren's arms |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication 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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