English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 82

The merchant, bustling up in such a hurry that he forgot his gout, opened the door, and who should he see waiting but the captain and factor, with a cabinet of jewels, and a bill of lading; when he looked at this the merchant lifted up his eyes and thanked Heaven for sending him such a prosperous voyage.

Who acts: merchant, Fitzwarren, bill · What happens: bustle up, forget, open, see, wait, lade · To what, where: hurry, gout, door, eyes, Heaven, Fitzwarren

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 (merchant, Fitzwarren, bill), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bustling	punct
4	bustling	bustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 merchant	conj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 bustling	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hurry	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 hurry	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hurry	det
9	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bustling	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 forgot	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forgot	nsubj
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bustling	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gout	nmod:poss
14	gout	gout	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgot	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 see	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 opened	conj
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 see	xcomp
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 captain	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 captain	det
28	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waiting	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 factor	cc
30	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 captain	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cabinet	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 cabinet	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cabinet	det
34	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 captain	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 jewels	case
36	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cabinet	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bill	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 bill	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bill	det
40	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 captain	conj
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 lading	mark
42	lading	lade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 bill	acl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 looked	punct
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 looked	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 looked	nsubj
46	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 opened	parataxis
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 this	case
48	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 looked	obl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 merchant	det
50	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lifted	nsubj
51	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 looked	conj
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 lifted	compound:prt
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 eyes	nmod:poss
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 lifted	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 thanked	cc
56	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 lifted	conj
57	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 thanked	obj
58	for	for	SCONJ	_	59 sending	mark
59	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 thanked	advcl
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 sending	obj
61	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	64 voyage	det:predet
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 voyage	det
63	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 voyage	amod
64	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sending	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bustle up	gerund	the merchant not said here			such hurry		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory
2	forget	past	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren's gout				tree rules
3	open	past	the merchant	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	see	should						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	wait	gerund						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lade	gerund	a bill not said here					tree rules
7	look	past	Fitzwarren				at this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme
8	lift up	past	the merchant	Fitzwarren's eyes				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
9	thank speech: thank	past	the merchant not said here		Heaven			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme
10	send	gerund	the merchant not said here	Fitzwarren			such prosperous voyage obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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