The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, sentence 6

‘_Somebody has been sitting in my chair, and has sate the bottom of it out_!’

Who acts: Somebody, sitting · What happens: sit, have, sate out · To what, where: chair, bottom

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, sitting), 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	_	6 sitting	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Somebody	punct
3	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sitting	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sate	csubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chair	nmod:poss
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 has	cc
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	advcl
13	sate	sate	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottom	det
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sate	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bottom	nmod
18	out	out	ADP	_	13 sate	compound:prt
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 sate	punct
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 sate	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 sate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	present · perfect · progressive	Somebody		my chair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	have	present	Somebody not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sate out	present	sitting	the bottom of Chair		vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument bottom=Theme

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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