The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, sentence 3

‘Somebody Has Been Sitting In My Chair!’

Who acts: Somebody · What happens: have · To what, where: Been Sitting, Chair

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Has	punct
2	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 Has	nsubj
3	Has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Been	Been	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sitting	compound
5	Sitting	Sitting	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Has	obj
6	In	in	ADP	_	8 Chair	case
7	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Chair	nmod:poss
8	Chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Has	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Has	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Somebody	Been Sitting		My Chair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sitting=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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