--- title: One morning, early, Mr. Fitzwarren had just come to his counting-hou… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whitting --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/) / 79 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:37:79 # text = 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. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Fitzwarren Fitzwarren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 counting counting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 desk desk NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 39 nsubj _ _ 39 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 40 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/80/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)