The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 55
The morn had scarcely dawned when Mr. Fitzwarren arose to count over the cash and settle the business for that day.
Who acts: Fitzwarren · What happens: dawn, arise, count, settle · To what, where: morn, cash, business
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 morn | det |
| 2 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dawned | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 dawned | advmod |
| 5 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 arose | advmod |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dawned | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 count | mark |
| 11 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arose | xcomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 cash | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cash | det |
| 14 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 count | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 settle | cc |
| 16 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 count | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 business | det |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settle | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settle | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past · perfect · passive | the morn | scarcely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | Fitzwarren Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | count | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren Mr. not said here | the cash | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | settle | infinitive | Fitzwarren Mr. not said here | the business | day | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme business=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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