The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 56

He had just entered the counting-house, and seated himself at the desk, when somebody came, tap, tap, at the door.

Who acts: Fitzwarren, somebody · What happens: enter, seat, come · To what, where: counting house, Fitzwarren, desk, tap, door

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, somebody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 entered	advmod
4	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
6	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 counting	punct
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seated	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seated	cc
11	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	parataxis
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 seated	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 desk	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 desk	det
15	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seated	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seated	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tap	punct
21	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tap	punct
23	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tap	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 door	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enter	past · perfect	Fitzwarren	the counting house		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2	seat	past		Fitzwarren	the desk	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	come	past	somebody	tap and tap	the door	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=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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