More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 121
Out came two gentlemen with a long table, and behind them fine ladies and gentlemen, each carrying a bag, and one of them was Hereafterthis with the bag of groats.
Who acts: each, one · What happens: come, carry, be · To what, where: two gentlemen, bag, Hereafterthis
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 (each, one), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 gentlemen | nummod |
| 4 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 table | amod |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ladies | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ladies | cc |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ladies | nmod |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ladies | amod |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gentlemen | cc |
| 16 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ladies | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 carrying | nsubj |
| 19 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ladies | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bag | det |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Hereafterthis | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Hereafterthis | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 Hereafterthis | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Hereafterthis | cop |
| 28 | Hereafterthis | Hereafterthis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 bag | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bag | det |
| 31 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Hereafterthis | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 groats | case |
| 33 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 bag | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two gentlemen | with a long table; out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gentleman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | each | a bag | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | one of door | Hereafterthis | with the bag of groats | tree rules |
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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