Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 45

One day as he was sitting in his chair and smoking, his servant came into the room.

Who acts: Sir, servant · What happens: sit, come · To what, where: One day, chair, room

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, servant), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sitting	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chair	nmod:poss
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smoking	cc
11	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chair	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 servant	nmod:poss
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Sir	One day not said here		Sir's chair and smoking			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme in chair=Location
2	come	past	Sir's servant			the room	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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