English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 19

Just at that time Mr. Fitzwarren himself came home to dinner; and when he saw a dirty ragged boy lying at the door, he said to him: “Why do you lie there, my boy?

Who acts: Fitzwarren, dirty ragged boy, Dick · What happens: come, see, lie, say · To what, where: dinner, dirty ragged boy, door, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fitzwarren, dirty ragged boy, Dick), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
6	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 Fitzwarren	nmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boy	det
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
19	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
21	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 boy	acl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 lie	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 lie	punct
32	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 lie	advmod
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 lie	aux
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 lie	nsubj
35	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 lie	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 boy	punct
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 boy	nmod:poss
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lie	conj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Fitzwarren Mr. Fitzwarren			dinner	time	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location
2	see	past	Fitzwarren	a dirty ragged boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	a dirty ragged boy not said here			the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
4	say speech: ask	past	Fitzwarren		Dick				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	lie in a quote	present · do-support	Dick			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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