English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 79

One morning, early, Mr. Fitzwarren had just come to his counting-house and seated himself at the desk, to count over the cash, and settle the business for the day, when somebody came tap, tap, at the door.

Who acts: Fitzwarren, somebody · What happens: come, seat, count, settle · To what, where: counting house, Fitzwarren, desk, cash, business, tap

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, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 Fitzwarren	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
7	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 house	nmod:poss
13	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 counting	punct
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seated	cc
17	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 seated	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 desk	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 desk	det
21	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 count	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 count	mark
24	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 cash	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cash	det
27	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 count	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 settle	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 settle	cc
30	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 business	det
32	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 settle	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 settle	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 came	advmod
38	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 settle	parataxis
40	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tap	punct
42	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tap	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 door	punct
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 door	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 door	det
46	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	Fitzwarren Mr.		Fitzwarren's counting house	morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	seat	past	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here	Fitzwarren	the desk		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	count	to-infinitive	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here		the cash		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	settle	infinitive	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here	the business		day	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme business=Location
5	come	past	somebody	tap and tap	the door		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tap=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: «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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