More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 106

Next day, he waited till Jan had gone to market, and then he came and knocked at the door. "

Who acts: robber, Jan · What happens: wait, go, come, knock · To what, where: market

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, Jan), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waited	nsubj
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
7	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 waited	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 market	case
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waited	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knocked	cc
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	robber		day		tree rules
2	go	past · perfect	Jan	market			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location
3	come	past	robber		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock	past	robber not said here			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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