More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 122

They sat round the table, and began to drink and talk and count up all the money in the bags.

Who acts: door · What happens: sit, begin, drink, talk, count up · To what, where: money, bags

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 (door), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drink	mark
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talk	cc
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 drink	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 count	cc
14	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 talk	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 count	compound:prt
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 money	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 count	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 bags	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bags	det
21	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 count	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	door			round the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	door not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drink	to-infinitive	door not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	infinitive	door not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	count up	infinitive	door not said here	all money	the bags		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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: «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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