The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 62

The merchant bustled up in such a hurry that he forgot his gout; instantly opened the door, and who should be seen waiting but the captain and factor, with a cabinet of jewels, and a bill of lading, for which the merchant lifted up his eyes and thanked heaven for sending him such a prosperous voyage.

Who acts: merchant, unseasonable · What happens: bustle up, forget, open, see, wait, lift up · To what, where: hurry, gout, door, eyes, heaven, unseasonable

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 (merchant, unseasonable), 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 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bustled	nsubj
3	bustled	bustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 bustled	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hurry	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hurry	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hurry	det
8	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bustled	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 forgot	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgot	nsubj
11	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bustled	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gout	nmod:poss
13	gout	gout	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forgot	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 opened	punct
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	16 opened	advmod
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bustled	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seen	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 opened	advcl
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 seen	xcomp
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 captain	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 captain	det
28	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waiting	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 factor	cc
30	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 captain	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cabinet	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 cabinet	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cabinet	det
34	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waiting	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 jewels	case
36	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cabinet	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bill	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 bill	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bill	det
40	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 lading	case
42	lading	lading	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bill	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lifted	punct
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 lifted	obl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 merchant	det
47	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lifted	nsubj
48	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 opened	conj
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 lifted	compound:prt
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eyes	nmod:poss
51	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lifted	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 thanked	cc
53	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 lifted	conj
54	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 thanked	obj
55	for	for	SCONJ	_	56 sending	mark
56	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 thanked	advcl
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 sending	obj
58	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	61 voyage	det:predet
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 voyage	det
60	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 voyage	amod
61	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sending	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bustled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bustle up	past	the merchant		such hurry		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory
2	forget	past	unseasonable	unseasonable's gout			tree rules
3	open	past		the door		a bill of lading obl; instantly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	see	should · passive					tree rules
5	wait	gerund				with a cabinet of jewels	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lift up	past	the merchant	unseasonable's eyes			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent eye=Theme for which=Beneficiary
7	thank speech: thank	past	the merchant not said here	heaven			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme
8	send	gerund	the merchant not said here	unseasonable		such prosperous voyage obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	bill			lading			nom bill «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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