Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 1

One morning Mr. Fitzwarren was sitting at his desk in his office.

Who acts: Fitzwarren · What happens: sit · To what, where: desk

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
4	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 desk	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 desk	nmod:poss
9	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 office	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 office	nmod:poss
12	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Fitzwarren Mr.			Fitzwarren's desk	morning	in Fitzwarren's office	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at desk=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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