English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 39

“Somebody has been sitting in my chair!”

Who acts: Somebody · What happens: sit · To what, where: chair

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears. 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	_	5 sitting	punct
2	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sitting	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
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	5 sitting	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	Somebody			my chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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