--- title: After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised him to send for a proper tailor an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised him to send for a proper tailor and get himself dressed like a gentleman; and told him he was welcome to live in his house till he could provide himself with a better. Who acts: Fitzwarren. 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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 (Fitzwarren), 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:pg7439:37:98 # text = After this Mr. Fitzwarren advised him to send for a proper tailor and get himself dressed like a gentleman; and told him he was welcome to live in his house 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 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 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 16 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 told tell 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 iobj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 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 28 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 | | Fitzwarren | | | after Fitzwarren Mr. | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren *not said here* | | | | | for a proper tailor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | Fitzwarren *not said here* | Fitzwarren | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **dress** | participle | Fitzwarren *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | Fitzwarren | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | past | Fitzwarren | | | | | welcome *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **live** | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren *not said here* | | | Fitzwarren's house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 8 | **provide** | could | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | | | | with a better | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with good=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/99/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)